Re: Micro$oft ba$tards at it again

After takin' a swig o' grog, Davorin Vlahovic belched out this bit o' wisdom:

On 2007-05-30, Chuck <skilover_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So what's new. Apple sued MS for "stealing" the concept of a
point-n-click gui and the trash can icon, which they in turn stole from
xerox. Now where is Apple?

What exactly has Apple stolen from Xerox?

AFAIK, Xerox got a better deal - they had gotten a bunch of Apple shares
in return for their GUI technology.

I saw a show about early PC technology, and apparently Xerox management
really screwed up. If they'd listened to their developers, we could
have had Xerox-based windowing systems in 1980.

In more recent news, Microsoft innovates the touch-screen-in-a-table.
Video poker anyone?

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/317737_msftdevice30.html

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