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> Suggesting that Apple (or anyone) had committed a crime shouldn't be
> taken lightly.
I am from the old hacker school, where "stealing" good software ideas
is not a crime, it's just right thinking.
> Nobody denies that the Macintosh interface incorporated
> many ideas invented elsewhere, but that's how technological progress
> (or
> science) works.
Exactly.
> You start with other people's ideas, build on that, and
> then still others build on what you've achieved. Apart from the region
> concept -- making it possible to write to windows partially hidden by
> other windows --, Apple's main achievement was that they actually
> brought
> all these ideas to market.
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Agreed. No mean feat that either...
Marty
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