From: William Pociengel (hseldon_at_my.wgu.edu)
Date: Sat Aug 20 2005 - 13:23:40 PDT
RossO wrote:
> "In 1979, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center developed the first=20
> prototype for a GUI. A young man named Steve Jobs, looking for new=20
> ideas to work into future iterations of the Apple computer, traded US=20
> $1 million in stock options to Xerox for a detailed tour of their=20
options are not given away, it's a matter of giveng them the chance to
BUY (albeit) at a (sometimes) prefered rate. so I stick to my statement
that they basically got it for free. (ok the then current value of the
stock minus the rate at which the stock was sold to Xerox)
so it's not like apple gave free stock in exchange for the gui.
according to (my admittedly ancient memory) I recall the engineers were
quite irritated that apple got the gui for what Xerox ended up getting
in exchange. this was covered in the industry press at the time (and
unfortunatly I have no copies to go back to.
I recall being happy that MS got the win in the lawsuit at the time :-(
based on the press coverage at Xerox. neither one of them made any
difference to me as I was using Apollo Domain IX at the time.
but that's all over now.
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