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lilshawn:

shudda had him sign a NDA  :dunno

all in all, let's put it this way, everybody does illegal things...some people get caught. if you think you can slide though under the radar without ruffling feathers of the "owners" is more or less the consensus here.

Download ROMS onto your machine and play them for fun, Really, no worse than speeding to beat the yellow light. Still illegal though.

If you make up computers and sell them with ROM collections for profit... Bad. Tantamount to driving 170 down the freeway. Still illegal. You may get away with it but someone is bound to eventually notice you and what you are doing.

I'm not saying it's okay everybody does it...or that it's 100% wrong and you will die and go to hell and burn for all eternity. All i'm saying is you ALL can make your own decision. If you want to do it, fine. if not, don't. simple as that. but don't get all butthurt if you are selling ROMs and someone knocks on your door with a bill and a court summons in hand.

mcseforsale:

PARC was a seriously naive group of engineering talent back then.  They saw the future, but in the feel-good 70s with all that LOVE flying around  :afro: , they didn't realize that these technical ideas would culminate into the most widely adopted sensory input scheme of all time, with a $ value unimaginable at the time.

While Jobs did license some of the stuff, the overall "scheme" of the look and feel was not something that could be licensed and/or copyrighted at the time because there was no precedence to rely on, such as with more tangible technologies such as processors, memory, etc.

AJ



ark_ader:


--- Quote from: Vigo on September 16, 2013, 11:53:13 am ---
--- Quote from: ark_ader on September 16, 2013, 05:37:28 am ---OK. We have 1 million dollars paid to Xerox, and they were on board to take their designs commercial. I do not see any borrowing or theft there.  Do you?


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Let me make an emphasis on the source you quoted:


--- Quote ---In 1979, Steve Jobs made a deal with Xerox's venture capital division: He would let them invest $1 million in exchange for a look at the technology they were working on.
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"Looking at" something does not = rights to Steal the companies employees and publish Xerox's work as their own. Since it cost 1 mil. to even look at the work, it is obvious it was highly valued by Xerox. Reading comprehension fail, Ark.

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I used Wikipedia....



Xerox made out like bandits on that deal.  Besides Xerox didn't invent the mouse.  Doug Engelbart did (who recently passed away this year).  GUI?  Well that is a another win for Doug Engelbart.  Before that it was Vannevar Bush that started work on the principles of GUI.  Per the BBC article: Mr. Englebart did not make much money from the mouse because its patent ran out in 1987, before the device became widely used. SRI licensed the technology in 1983 for $40,000 (£26,000) to Apple.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23174052

So Apple did not steal anything, it just made the technology more mainstream.  Sorry Vigo you are completely wrong on your assumptions.  My fault for using Wikipedia.   :cheers:

I studied graphical user interfaces and cognitive psychology for my thesis.  It is quite fascinating when you get into the aspects of GUI and human interaction.

lilshawn:



UFO:


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