On Jun 23, 2012, at 7:24 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: "Bob W"
>
>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>>> Godfrey DiGiorgi
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> Y'all are arguing about who did the best job of stealing ideas from
>>> Xerox.
>>>>
>>>> It's worth reading the Steve Jobs bio just to get the straight goods
>>>> on that somewhat apocryphal story. Xerox were being really stupid
>>> with
>>>> that technology and basically sold it to Apple for pennies on the
>>>> dollar.
>>>
>>> Yup. SJ weaseled it out of Xerox legitimately, Microsoft stole the
>>> ideas from Apple.
>>
>> It's the hundredth anniversary of Turing's birth today. Everybody stole
>> everything from him.
>>
>> Ironically he killed himself by eating a cyanide-laced apple after being
>> prosecuted and persecuted for being gay and forced to take drugs which made
>> him grow breasts. I wonder if Jobs had that in mind when he chose the symbol
>> of a rainbow-striped apple with a bite taken out.
>>
>> Google has a nice doodle today marking the centenary. Thanks to them for
>> helping to fund Bletchley Park.
>
> I saw at least one argument that the coroner's inquest in Turing's case
> wouldn't stand up by modern standards. They didn't even test the apple to see
> if it did have cyanide in it.
>
> The alternative theory put forth was that Turing was experimenting with
> electroplating & careless handling his chemicals leading him to accidental
> death.
>
> ... or possibly the British government did him in.
>
> And Godfrey, there's plenty of evidence that Bill Gates stole the ideas that
> became Windoze directly from Xerox.
>
Gates told a funny story once in some documentary I saw a while back. It was
Steve Jobs' view that Microsoft had stole something from Apple, so he called
Gates to the Apple headquarters and started ranting in a meeting about this.
When Jobs finished, Gates said, "well, Steve, there's another way to look at
this. We both had Xerox as a neighborhood. Microsoft tried to break in and
steal something only to discover you at Apple had stole it first."
Cheers, Christine
>
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