On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 08:12 pm, Nick Arnett wrote:
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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.
Gutenberg *did* actually publish books though. He lost control of his business to his creditors - who then also published books.
And Henry Ford seems to be remembered as inventor of the motor car, rather than Daimler and Benz. Why? Because he made it affordable.
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