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To: P.O.E.

MS never stole windows from Apple. Xerox developed GUIs and mouse controllers nearly a decade before Apple used them.


14 posted on 12/27/2017 6:53:25 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Kirkwood

The huge settlement Microsoft paid Apple begs to differ, and Apple paid Xerox for their visit to PARC, nothing was stolen. Xerox had developed a very rudimentary mouse with an equally rudimentary graphical user interface, but had done nothing with it, it basically died on the vine at Xerox.


15 posted on 12/27/2017 6:57:43 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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