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Jobs was like that before he got ill.
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
Apple and licensing.

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Jobs was like that before he got ill.
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.

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