His little tirade may have goaded the originators of the idea on.That would be pretty galling, having someone who stole your idea complain publicly about having it stolen from him...I guess the lawyers did figure it out :biggrin:
His little tirade may have goaded the originators of the idea on.That would be pretty galling, having someone who stole your idea complain publicly about having it stolen from him...I guess the lawyers did figure it out :biggrin:
How delicious would it be if one of the creators was a Bama grad? :biggrin:His little tirade may have goaded the originators of the idea on.That would be pretty galling, having someone who stole your idea complain publicly about having it stolen from him...
In the Walter Isaacson book The Innovators he talks about Steve Jobs getting mad that Bill Gates stole the idea of Windows from him. Jobs stole it from someone else. I don't recall who it was now. Gates told Jobs something to the affect that Jobs getting mad at Gates was like a thief being in a house and getting mad because another thief came along and stole what the first thief wanted to get.His little tirade may have goaded the originators of the idea on.That would be pretty galling, having someone who stole your idea complain publicly about having it stolen from him...
I found the story:In the Walter Isaacson book The Innovators he talks about Steve Jobs getting mad that Bill Gates stole the idea of Windows from him. Jobs stole it from someone else. I don't recall who it was now. Gates told Jobs something to the affect that Jobs getting mad at Gates was like a thief being in a house and getting mad because another thief came along and stole what the first thief wanted to get.
And the greatest robbery may have been the GUI – Graphical User Interface. But who stole? Later when he was challenged about pilfering Xerox’s ideas, Jobs quoted Picasso: “Good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have been always shameless about stealing great ideas. They were copier-heads who had no clue about what a computer could do.” [Page 365]
However when Microsoft copied Apple for Windows, it was a different story… “In the early 1980s, before the introduction of the Macintosh, Microsoft had a good relationship with Apple. In fact on the day that IBM launched its PC in August 1981, Gates was visiting Jobs at Apple, which was a regular occurrence since Microsoft was making most of its revenue writing software for the Apple II. Gates was still the supplicant in the relationship. In 1981, Apple had $334 million in revenue, compared to Microsoft’s $15 million. […] Jobs had one major worry about Microsoft: he didn’t want it to copy the graphical user interface. […] His fear that Gates would steal the idea was somewhat ironic, since Jobs himself had filched the concept from Xerox.” [Pages 366-67]
Things would go worse… “Well, Steve, I think there’s more than one way of looking at it. I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and I found out that you had already stolen it”. [Page 368]
And then, Gates turned around and tried to trademark the word "Windows." Lost of course...In the Walter Isaacson book The Innovators he talks about Steve Jobs getting mad that Bill Gates stole the idea of Windows from him. Jobs stole it from someone else. I don't recall who it was now. Gates told Jobs something to the affect that Jobs getting mad at Gates was like a thief being in a house and getting mad because another thief came along and stole what the first thief wanted to get.
Apple paid a lot of license fees to Xerox for years, and MS initially paid license fees to Apple, and everyone was ok with the situation. Then MS, in their typical fashion, stopped paying license fees and (in effect) told Apple to "blank" themselves.* Apple sued MS, Xerox filed a defensive lawsuit against Apple - everyone mostly lost - except the lawyers, who mostly won, via the tons of fees they collected......I found the story:
As hilarious as this story is, I won't lie - I was sorta hoping that Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall were suing Lebron! LOL!!!
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Actually, Gates walked off from IBM with DOS...Apple paid a lot of license fees to Xerox for years, and MS initially paid license fees to Apple, and everyone was ok with the situation. Then MS, in their typical fashion, stopped paying license fees and (in effect) told Apple to "blank" themselves.* Apple sued MS, Xerox filed a defensive lawsuit against Apple - everyone mostly lost - except the lawyers, who mostly won, via the tons of fees they collected......
* Historical side-note (Factoid), about corporate "loyalty" (sic) - Though difficult to imagine today, MS would not exist were it not for Apple. We know MS as the MONOLITH that has for 30+ years made (and still makes) BBBBBillion$$$$$ selling software for "DOS" then "Windows" computers, but MS would never have been in position to make those Billions had they not gotten their start selling software for Apple and Apple II computers in the late 1970's and early 1980's before the advent of "IBM PC's"....
Temerity is a word that should get thrown around a lot more than it does.Know many hate Clay Travis, but he tweeted this screenshot of LBJ’s attorney’s defense. It’s exactly what Alabama fans said.
https://twitter.com/claytravis/status/986737528760930310?s=21
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I think he was the goalie that was married to Carla on Cheers.Who is this James LeBraun you speak of?
Canadian born hockey player? Bayou boat captain?
I'm old, so every Time I see "LBJ", I think of Lyndon Baines Johnson...Who is this James LeBraun you speak of?
Canadian born hockey player? Bayou boat captain?
I'm old, so every Time I see "LBJ", I think of Lyndon Baines Johnson...
I think he was the goalie that was married to Carla on Cheers.