From: RossO (newton_at_ordersomewherechaos.com)
Date: Fri Aug 19 2005 - 07:28:11 PDT
On Aug 18, 2005, at 10:48 PM, William Pociengel wrote:
> uh, no. Zerox PARC was where it came from (Palo Alto Research Center)
> and were they pissed when the folks in charge GAVE away the GUI to=20
> apple
> for free.
Pull up there a bit William and be sure to check the facts. _X_erox=20
gave nothing away to Apple. In exchange for the field traps that the=20
Mac/Lisa teams took to Xerox PARC, Xerox ended up with a large chunk of=20=
Apple stock:
from woz.org:
"Steve Jobs made the case to Xerox PARC execs directly that they had=20
great technology but that Apple knew how to make it affordable enough=20
to change the world. This was very open. In the end, Xerox got a large=20=
block of Apple stock for sharing the technology. That's not stealing=20
outright. Apple didn't get any stock from Microsoft. Nor was Apple=20
dealt with openly in this area by Microsoft."
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/real-history-gui/5
"At any rate, Jobs, who was first told by Raskin about the fun going on=20=
at PARC in 1976, decided that he wanted to bring a team of Appleniks=20
into PARC and see what was causing such a buzz =96 but again, the idea =
of=20
Jobs coming in like a kid touring Epcot with a tape recorder hidden=20
under his shirt is mistaken. Apple negotiated a deal with Xerox; in=20
return for a block of Apple stock, Xerox allowed Jobs and his team to=20
tour PARC in December 1979, take notes, and implement some of the ideas=20=
and concepts being bounced around at PARC in their own creations. I=92m=20=
not sure how Xerox felt about Apple subsequently hiring half =96 perhaps=20=
the better half =96 of PARC=92s staff away from them, but the process =
was=20
relatively above-board; no night kidnappings or bribes under the table=20=
at Jack In the Box. Xerox allowed Apple to use their ideas in their=20
machines."
=46rom http://www.smalltalk.org/alankay.html
"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
facilities and current projects. One of the things Xerox showed Jobs=20
was the Alto, which sported a GUI and a three-button mouse. When Jobs=20
saw this prototype, he had an epiphany and set out to bring the GUI to=20=
the public.
=97 Adam Powell, Wired=20
(http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/9297.html)=
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