Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!concertina!fiddler From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Fwd: Xerox - Apple Computer Suit -2- Message-ID: <129381@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 18 Dec 89 21:52:47 GMT References: <21846@usc.edu> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Lines: 24 In article <21846@usc.edu>, papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: > In article <5827@internal.Apple.COM> casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes: > >This one is a bit too outrageous to let pass. Absolutely _no_ part of the > >Mac implementation was developed and tested at PARC. Furthermore, the > >basic concept of multiple windows came from SRI, as did the mouse. Should > >SRI be suing Xerox? > > How about this one: its is widely known that Steve Jobs *STOLE* a number > of Xerox PARC employees to start the Lisa project. They were bound and gagged? Handcuffed to their desks, perhaps? A number of major contributors to the Mac and Lisa OS effort had no prior connection to PARC at all. (This should not necessarily be construed as a defense of Steve Jobs, btw.) ------------ "...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..." Plato, _Phaedrus_ 275d