check it out guys

[ron browning]

The same group that bought Word Perfect, did a Linux release, and had a drawing program.  Need I say more?

Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:So much for foresight!
Just out of curiousity, sold it to who?

Joe

ron browning wrote:

> Parc use was older and went back to a wordprocessor system. Xerox 
> then went to Xerox 'Globalview' which unlike the current stuff had 
> security and a document control system better then Lotus Notes. Xerox 
> sold the source for 25K for both the windows and Unix version and as 
> we said at Xerox, "it didn't use toner"!
>
> */Robert Meyer /* wrote:
>
>
> --- Asheville Joe wrote:
> > This is silly, but it costs people a lot of money! It reminds me
> almost
> > exactly of when Apple tried to sue Microsoft for stealing it's
> Windows
> > design and in the middle of the whole thing, Xerox chimed in and
> said
> > they both swiped it from PARC. I bet almost no one remembers
> that by
> > now - as it should be.
>
> I remember that whole mess. I actually saw a version of the Xerox
> 'Globalview'
> program in action. The icons were identical to Apple's original
> desktop
> layout. I always wondered if M$ would have been slowed down if
> they had lost
> the lawsuit. Probably not, woulda just bought Apple out.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Bob
>
>
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