i find it a bit laughable / disappointing that they don't even refer to Alan Kay by name-- "a former Apple programmer"-- as though somehow Myhrvold is more impo

i find it a bit laughable / disappointing that they don't even refer to Alan Kay by name-- "a former Apple programmer"-- as though somehow Myhrvold is more important to ... anything ... than Alan Kay has been to computing. The only reason Microsoft even exists is because they ripped off Alan Kay and his colleagues at Xerox PARC (well, arguably Apple too, but bill gates himself thought of it more as "stealing the rich neighbor's tv set [before Apple did]"). does anyone else get a weird sense of cognitive dissonance when reading stuff about Nathan Mhyrvold? by all accounts he seems like an extremely capable and insightful person, but at the same time i find his mercenary tactics (see: Microsoft, Intellectual Ventures) extremely discomfiting-- like he is some sort of sith lord not to be trusted or something.