Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!giza.cis.ohio-state.edu!lum From: lum@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lum Johnson) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: Boycott apple! Message-ID: <55791@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 22 Jul 89 20:09:46 GMT References: <8907202252.AA02288@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <85@euteal.ele.tue.nl> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Lum Johnson Distribution: gnu Organization: The Ohio State University, IRCC/CIS Joint Computing Laboratory Lines: 18 In article lum@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lum Johnson) writes: > Apple, on the other hand, are widely acknowledged to have stolen > the ideas for their user interface from Xerox, admittedly with Xerox' > connivance, who were stupid enough to not appropriately distrust Apple. As someone else has pointed out to me, Apple have actually paid Xerox for some concepts acquired from them. Fair's fair - I acknowledge this. What I meant was that everyone I know is more aware than Apple seems willing to be of just where all this wonderful stuff actually came from. But you'll pardon me, I hope, if sometimes some of the asinine nonsense spouted here by the rabid anti-FSF people just plain pisses me off. Lum -=- -- Lum Johnson lum@cis.ohio-state.edu lum@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu "You got it kid -- the large print giveth and the small print taketh away." -------