Thread: Change of heart at Apple?
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Old 04-26-2012, 12:40 PM   #39
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
BTW, Apple has always been lawsuit-happy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_C..._Computer_Corp.
IBM sued other companies over its BIOS as well and won. It wasn't until Phoenix proved they used a "clean room" approach and software engineers with no knowledge of IBM BIOS source code to reverse engineer the BIOS that IBM clones could be built.

Old Infoworld article



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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Apple did not steal the window GUI interface from Xerox. They bought it. They also greatly improved it - the Xerox interface didn't have overlapping windows at all. It needed Bill Atkinson's regions to allow overlapping non-rectangular windows.


Xerox's work on the GUI was also heavily influenced by Doug EngelBart's Augmentation Research Center at the Stanford Research Institute.
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