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To: rudedog who wrote (67258)	4/13/2002 1:27:48 AM
From: jonkai	Read Replies (1) of 74651

did you read through the references I posted? The people on the front lines at the time don't see it as clearly as you appear to do. did you read the actual reference to the trial that i posted? where MSFT admitted getting the GUI from apple, not xerox... the Judge also ruled that Apple's licensing agreement gave MSFT the right to the interface code..... that is why MSFT won, the only reason..... it is spelled out in the actual trial judgement... my view can be proven with an actual time line..... do a search on the net for "steve jobs 1979 and Parc", then do one for Gates in 1980, also do a search for Lisa.... oh never mind, here i'll give you a direct quote proving that Gates saw the lisa and the premac, and it was before he went to PARC..... see below... when he is talking about the "cheaper lisa" he is talking about the mac... if anyone does enough reasearch they can put the time line together, and it all leads to Bill Gates envying the Lisa, having access to the Mac, and later visiting PARC, because he had found out where apple had gotten their ideas...... also note that the MSFT design work for the IBM PC (more precisly the renaming of QDOS and coping it) was done before Febuary of 1981.....(by contract because IBM wanted it done then) so all these events took place before then..... Bill Gates: "Even before we finished our work on the IBM PC, Steve Jobs came and talked about what he wanted to do what he thought he could do sort of a LISA but cheaper. We said boy we'd love to help out. The LISA had all its own applications but of course they required a lot of memory ah and we thought we could do better and so Steve signed a deal with us to actually provide bundled applications for the first Mac and so we were big believers in the Mac and what Steve was doing there."

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