Joe Steeve wrote on Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:24:54PM +0530:
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| Well., its true that the desktop themes of today are targetted more
| towards making the GNU/Linux desktop look more like a XP desktop. But
| that was not the motive when `X' came around. The Mac people thought
| of graphics and pointing devices first. They brought it to the
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Apple did not "think" of graphics and pointing devices first. Douglas
Engelbart[1] thought of and patented the pointing device. Fortunately,
Software patents didn't exist back then, so he couldn't patent the
GUI.
Same is with the GUI. Xerox invented the idea of a GUI[2], not Apple.
cheers,
-Suraj
[1] http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa081898.htm
[2] http://www.cedmagic.com/history/xerox-alto.html
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