Story: Apple's patent bending
Posted by: unicode (Thursday 1 April 2004, 9:40 AM)
Apple Paid Xerox for the GUI ideas. Did Microsoft pay apple?
You have to ask yourself where would Micorsoft be today if they did not mimic the apple GUI. With windows. It would probably be a lot better.
OSX has been around for more than three years, what is Longhorn going to be, when is it going to be availible?
I think computer companies need to start thinking for themslefs. It is like Apple is the R&D team of the computing world.
I think that Looking Glass has potential, good on you Sun, for pumping money into A&D. We would have better interfaces if everyone spent money this way.
I would like a stabe and intuitive computer, the more companies who spend money on this the faster the human race benifits from intuitieve time saving interfaces.
Think about all the hours people have spent trying to get printers to work with computers, if there was a simple intuitive interface, this time would be used for some thing better, I hope.
good on you apple, for trying to recoop some of that money.
not that I really like patents, especially on things like "the wheel" and "rice DNA sequences".
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Story: Apple's patent bending
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That was the most riddiculous, error filled bag of... Anonymous -
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Obviously written by an open source communist. :-)... George Jones
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Apple patent application 20040055446 filed October... Anonymous
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This article is so replete with inaccuracies and m... Anonymous
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Touché George ;-)
I am actually a developer and no... David Wright
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I think you have a problem with the fact that all... Anonymous
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Since ZDNet doesn't seem to have fact-checkers, I... Anonymous
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This is a sadly biased article based on poor resea... Anonymous
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"Apple employees coming from Xerox PARC brought wi... Anonymous
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Apple is totally to blame for making the iPod so d... Jayson Lee
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Does the author of the article care to read these... Innovation Should Rule
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Dear Lord, what would happen to the computing worl... P.J. Proby
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you mean like how Microsoft went an patented xml?... stuart good
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It really depends what they are patenting. A hier... Jack Zahran
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Apple has a right to protect the ideas wich are al... Filip Remplakowski
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"we would all be driving $25 cars that get 1,000 t... Carlos Echavarri-Erasun
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Of course it's obvious - everyone has seen and use... Yarg C. YargVee
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has anyone noticed that iPod interface mimics NEXT... Anonymous
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You are an envious and pathetic Pc user .Shame o... Anonymous
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Do you even work for this site or did you just hap... geoff
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Let's hope this was an April Fools day comment....... Tim Dooley
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I just LOVE it when columnists try to turn patent... Anonymous
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While I would agree to a point, Apple's patent is... Anonymous
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Obviously they didn't "learnt their lesson" or oth... Anonymous
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To be certain everyone knows what they are fightin... Chris Roehl
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If Mr. Loney has seen the iPod interface before, h... Anonymous
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Wow.... This coming from some columnist who's obvi... Anonymous
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A guy I know patented 3 x 3 teabag cases. Nothing... Anonymous
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Article author mistakes (very old) jokes for actua... Anurup Joseph
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Apple Paid Xerox for the GUI ideas. Did Microsoft... unicode -
Gee, MAYBE you can apply this to M$ trying to pate... S.W. Bobcat
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Saying Apple's iPod interface is just a blending o... Anonymous
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"have yet to see anything in the iPod inteface tha... Anonymous
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I have been reading all the comments and it seems... Anonymous
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