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No patents, no PARC. No PARC, well, would we have come up with the GUI, the laser printer, ethernet? Maybe so, but it's hard to argue against the merits of PA
by brc 16y ago
No patents, no PARC. No PARC, well, would we have come up with the GUI, the laser printer, ethernet? Maybe so, but it's hard to argue against the merits of PARC, which existed solely because of the photocopying patent held by Xerox.