In message <000001bfd626$9f56a420$fe5e78cc@ntwork>, "John Baird"
writes:
> Yeah but what really bugs me about threads like these denigrating MS is that
> apple stole the original gui idea from Xerox. Somehow the MS haters
> conveniently forget this.
It is my information that Xerox *gave* the software to Apple and
Apple
*gave* Apple stock in return. I don't believe that Apple *stole* the
GUI from Xerox.
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