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Fifty years ago they paid for Xerox's PARC where WYSIWYG and GUI interfaces were first developed targeting a mass audience.
by anonymouskimmer 3y ago
Fifty years ago they paid for Xerox's PARC where WYSIWYG and GUI interfaces were first developed targeting a mass audience.
- nottorp 3y agoIirc Apple paid (in Apple stock perhaps) but Microsoft didn't :)
- sophacles 3y agoRight, I was so glad when those patents expired because the Xerox monopoly on my computer usage was annoying.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoSpecifically the Laser printer patents paid for PARC, and then some. As mentioned a few days ago by another commenter.
- kalleboo 3y agoBy that logic we need to bring back a telephone monopoly since Bell Labs brought us so much innovation paid for by rip-off calling fees.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoBy that logic if anything bad has ever resulted in anything good we have to keep doing the bad thing in magical hopes that it will keep causing good to happen.