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To: TigerLikesRooster
Mr Jobs told author Walter Isaacson that he viewed Android's similarity to iOS as "grand theft".

This would be the same Steve Jobs who said something to the effect of "We [Apple] have never been ashamed to steal a great idea" or something along those lines? Didn't Jobs get the idea for the mouse from some government or military computer system he saw, among other things?

At least now his liberalism begins to make sense - he was a hyprocrite, like all liberals.

12 posted on 10/21/2011 7:23:25 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Sicon

Interesting comment from one of the ‘Pirates of Silicon Valley’.


14 posted on 10/21/2011 7:29:35 AM PDT by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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To: Sicon
Didn't Jobs get the idea for the mouse from some government or military computer system he saw, among other things?

He got the idea for the mouse, GUI, and networked computers from a demo conducted by Hewlett-Packard in the 1970s.

28 posted on 10/21/2011 7:54:29 AM PDT by rllngrk33 (Things will continue getting worse until January 21, 2013.)
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To: Sicon
Didn't Jobs get the idea for the mouse from some government or military computer system he saw, among other

Apple licensed the mouse from the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), whose Dr. Douglas Englelbart is the inventor, paying for an unlimited license. Apple did not steal it. They then patented their one button design among others.

52 posted on 10/21/2011 2:34:13 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
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