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From: robert@sri-spam.istc.sri.com (Robert Allen)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Apple Challenges HP New Wave, MS-Windows, Potentially OS/2 PM
Message-ID: <11830@sri-spam.istc.sri.com>
Date: 21 Mar 88 19:19:15 GMT
References: <5480@well.UUCP> <5492@well.UUCP> <1457@ur-tut.UUCP>
Reply-To: robert@sri-spam.UUCP (Robert Allen)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park
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Keywords: Apple Mac HP Microsoft Windows OS/2 New Wave Frivolous Litigation

In article <1457@ur-tut.UUCP> aptr@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (The Wumpus) writes:
+
+The person responsible for developing the Mac enviorment came from
+Xerox PARC.  Apple decided (or rather Jobbs decided) to hire him
+because they had tried to write a system on their own and had really
+botched it.  My father was at PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) the day
+Jobbs hired the guy (I can not think of his name).  Jobbs came in in
+the morning and in the afternoon, the guy walked out with Jobbs, never
+to work for Xerox again.  Apparently, Jobbs made an offer the guy
+couldn't refuse.
+
+Any one want to see Xerox sue the pants off of Apple?
	
    If Apple wins its' suit, and Xerox then sues Apple, it will
    be doubly ironic since Apple will have spent the money to
    develop a precedent which Xerox could then use to its' advantage.
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