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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 12:32 PM EDT |
As I remember it, Apple was forced to license it from Xerox after they came out
with the GUI.
Hmm, there seems to be a common theme between then and current goings on with
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Authored by: DannyB on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 03:22 PM EDT |
Apple did have to license from Xerox for $100 Million in Apple stock.
(There
are contemporary sources for this
long lost
information.)
There was no MS-Office for Mac. There was
Multiplan. There was Word. There was Excel (which replaced Multiplan, and then
went on to be ported to Windows later). (Yes, Excel came out on the Mac
first.)
Developers, like Microsoft did not need a license to write
applications. You could use Apple's development tools, and later on third party
development tools. Microsoft probably needed NDA's because Microsoft was a Mac
developer long before the Mac was announced. Microsoft's apps were ready to
sell when Mac came out.
I seem to recall that later, under Scully,
Apple gave Microsoft a license for Microsoft Windows. I seem to recall that
this was done *before* Apple sued Microsoft for look and feel.
--- The
price of freedom is eternal litigation. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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