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To: jonkai who wrote (67259)	4/13/2002 8:25:15 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (3) of 74651

Jon - if you are asking whether Jobs was more innovative than Gates, or Apple more than MSFT, I think there is no question. Jobs broke the mold and made the GUI popular and was one of the great innovators of the last generation. Gates' strength is not innovation, it is connecting the dots and acting. Jobs gets the first piece right - brilliantly - and then fails to see the implications and so blows the follow-through. On the trial, You are confusing things again. I did not see a reference where Microsoft said they copied the Apple GUI, although I know for a fact that they spent a lot of time looking at it during the design of Windows. That is a lot different than "porting the code". The way a trial works is not much related to a search for abstract truth, it is a discussion of a specific set of facts against a specific set of rules. In that context, MSFT said that the facts did not show they broke the rules because they had a right to use the code. That may, in your mind, imply that they used the code. It does not. It just means that even if they did, they didn't break the rules.

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