<DIV>The same group that bought Word Perfect, did a Linux release, and had a drawing program. Need I say more?<BR><BR><B><I>Asheville Joe <josephj@main.nc.us></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">So much for foresight!<BR>Just out of curiousity, sold it to who?<BR><BR>Joe<BR><BR>ron browning wrote:<BR><BR>> Parc use was older and went back to a wordprocessor system. Xerox <BR>> then went to Xerox 'Globalview' which unlike the current stuff had <BR>> security and a document control system better then Lotus Notes. Xerox <BR>> sold the source for 25K for both the windows and Unix version and as <BR>> we said at Xerox, "it didn't use toner"!<BR>><BR>> */Robert Meyer <MEYER_RM@YAHOO.COM>/* wrote:<BR>><BR>><BR>> --- Asheville Joe wrote:<BR>> > This is silly, but it costs people a lot of money! It reminds me<BR>> almost<BR>> > exactly of when Apple tried to sue Microsoft for stealing it's<BR>> Windows<BR>> > design and in the middle of the whole thing, Xerox chimed in and<BR>> said<BR>> > they both swiped it from PARC. I bet !
almost no one remembers<BR>> that by<BR>> > now - as it should be.<BR>><BR>> I remember that whole mess. I actually saw a version of the Xerox<BR>> 'Globalview'<BR>> program in action. The icons were identical to Apple's original<BR>> desktop<BR>> layout. I always wondered if M$ would have been slowed down if<BR>> they had lost<BR>> the lawsuit. Probably not, woulda just bought Apple out.<BR>><BR>> Cheers!<BR>><BR>> Bob<BR>><BR>><BR>> __________________________________<BR>> Do you Yahoo!?<BR>> Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM).<BR>> http://calendar.yahoo.com<BR>><BR>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>> Do you Yahoo!?<BR>> Free online calendar <BR>> <HTTP: calendar.yahoo.com *http: tag mail_us us.rd.yahoo.com>with <BR>> sync to Outlook(TM).<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><p><hr SIZE=1>
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