Sujet : Re: Workstation Aesthetics
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 27. Jun 2024, 09:52:23
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On 26 Jun 2024 16:49:22 GMT, rbowman wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 06:40:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
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"In 1973, Xerox PARC developed the Alto personal computer. It had a
bitmapped screen, and was the first computer to demonstrate the
desktop metaphor and graphical user interface (GUI)."
>
Oh yeah, didn't they end up making no money off that?
Xerox as a company made enough money they could afford to have a hobby.
PARC prospered for as long as parent company Xerox grew fat off the
profits from those photocopier patents. After they expired, not so much.
Compare Bell Labs, which similarly had its heyday back when parent company
AT&T controlled essentially the entire US phone network.
So in both cases, a Government-granted monopoly created the environment
for a groundbreaking research organization to flourish. A lesson in there
somewhere?