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From: perry@apollo.uucp (Jim Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Apple Lawsuit (was BOYCOTT APPLE, etc.)
Message-ID: <3bb68a91.ddc1@apollo.uucp>
Date: 27 Apr 88 14:14:00 GMT
References: <292@unicom.UUCP> <663@csm9a.UUCP> <4283@dandelion.CI.COM> <10500@steinmetz.ge.com> <127@edson.UUCP> <10595@sunybcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: perry@apollo.UUCP (Jim Perry)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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Keywords: Microsoft, HP New Wave, Xerox, Lawsuit

In article <10595@sunybcs.UUCP> ugfailau@sunybcs.UUCP (Fai Lau) writes:
>In article <127@edson.UUCP> doug@edson.UUCP (Doug Konrad) writes:
>>> 
>>The Mustang wasn't invented, it was designed. From what was learned from
>>Henry's original work. Ditto the mac interface and Xerox.
>>
>	With all the new tachnologies *invented* between the first Ford and
>now, all we learned from Ford that we applied to the Mustang are little
>more than the basic design of a box riding on four wheels (note that Ford
>himself did not invent most of the tachnologies that were required for his
>design to work, he simply arranged what was available to create a new
>machine.) Today's automobiles are the result of effort by many many
>inventors, designers, technicians, engineers, etc. It's just plain silly
>to say we built the Mustang by learning from Ford's "original" work.
>

This somewhat strained analogy has gone so far that I'm surprised
(well, not really, this is Usenet: who needs facts) that nobody's pointed
out the basic flaw: Henry Ford did not invent the automobile.  He is
credited with developing the assembly line process, which made large scale
commercial production of automobiles possible.