This is as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge

And this is Protecting intellectual property, written Mar 28, 2006, and concerning Rants, Software

Jensen Harris, on the MS Office 12 weblog, talks about the "why" of the new Office UI, and in a section harking back to Xerox PARC inventing the graphical interface, includes this great line:

[T]oday many technology historians point out that Xerox did not do very much to protect the intellectual property they created.

I wonder if we'd have a world run by GUIs now if Xerox had "protected" their "intellectual property".

Comments

Paul Freeman

lol. If there was one company that helped copying, you'd think it would be Xerox

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