> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of William T Goodall
... > 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 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
