8 Nov
2006
8 Nov
'06
4:18 a.m.
Warren Wolfe wrote:
It's too bad, in a way. The effort put into the Lisa was
gargantuan, and directed very well. On its own, it was a great product.
It was just the user interface which was appropriated without
permission.
I'm not sure that the above is correct. All the historical
sources
point to the exact opposite. Steve Jobs gave Xerox a ton of Apple stock
to "sort of open the kimono at Xerox PARC." It was allowed and well
known, and if you read the stories on folklore.org and compare a Star or
an Alto to a Lisa you'll find there are vast differences in the UI. It
simply wasn't just copied, much less without permission.