Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!gatech!mcnc!ecsvax!cjl From: cjl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Charles Lord) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: origin of new ideas (was SEA vs. Phil Katz ad hominim flame fest) Summary: Mac interface stolen too... Message-ID: <5309@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Date: 22 Jun 88 14:53:55 GMT References:<3329@whutt.UUCP> <447@apr.UUCP> Organization: Triangle R&D Corp,RTP,NC Lines: 13 Since Larry brought up the Apple 'look and feel' suit that has everyone so up in arms, don't forget that Apple *stole* that idea from Xerox PARC in the tiny kingdom of Smalltalk... Thus, NONE of the "original" ideas in computerdom was indeed original. After all, according to AT&T's ads, they invented EVERYTHING first. -- Charles Lord Cary, NC cjl@ecsvax.UUCP Usenet cjl@ecsvax.BITNET Bitnet