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> Behalf Of William T Goodall

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> What about "great artists ship"? - the Xerox mouses cost $400 each (in
> 1980 money) and the Xerox Star cost $20,000 each or so. Nobody was
> going to change the world with those products. Without Apple (and
> Microsoft for that matter) the mouse would have remained a laboratory
> curiosity.

Separate point.  If building a business around an invention were what the
world remembers, we'd all hail Aldus Manutius instead of Gutenberg, who was
the PARC of the printing revolution.

Nick

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