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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (926)	5/14/1998 2:34:00 PM
From: Dragonfly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1600

Well, I would say OLE was a significant innovation. You may not. Ole was a copy of Apple's Publish and Subscribe technology. It was not an innovation. Apple's technology preceeded OLE by about 2 years, and worked over the network almost right away. (OLE wasn't able to do this until just in the last couple of years.) What I'm saying is that Apple did not invent the laser printer. They may have produced the first consumer level laser printer, but that's a whole different thing. Apple produced the first ever printer to use a laser, a spinning mirror, and electrostatically charged toner to produce images on standard office paper. That is the invention of the laser printer. (I guess some credit should go to Adobe for creating a page description language and interpreter that could provide a raster image fast enough for the laser and at high enough quality to make using a laser relevant.) You can deny it all you want, but the facts are that Apple invented it, along with the GUI OS, 3.5 inch drive, low-cost peer-to-peer networking, etc. Apple and just about everyone else innovates, Microsoft copies. Dragonfly