Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Xerox Wildflowers - Dandelions and Daybreaks
in reality it was a business deal that in essence traded Apple stock for use of Xerox IP
https://zurb.com/blog/steve-jobs-and-xerox-the-truth-about-inno Web search for "apple Xerox business deal" found this link pretty quickly. It links to a New York Times article from 2011. As Tony Bogan says, there's probably more such reportage. However, there's also reportage that's just crap - based on speculation and opinion and hype for various purposes. I myself, didn't know one way or another if there was a business deal between Apple/Jobs and Xerox. It was not hard to find out, presuming these are legitimate sources. The chatter after the linked article is informative, because it includes first-hand testimony, plus informed opinions from actual experienced technical persons. Other commentary is fun to see. People not part of the events or items in question, split hairs about things like "innovate" versus "copy", "real genius", and who the heroes and villains "really" were. I'm commenting, because I run across this stuff all the time, and I maintain my own Web site on vintage computing. I have to explain more and more history, because most of my site-readers now have no experience with my items from my era. I could say more about history and evidence, and why people speak or write about something for one purpose or another. But I decided, it's enough to say the following. People write or speak for some purpose. There may or may not be, evidence behind their words. Know the purposes and know the evidence, and then you can (if you wish) decide how to consider what's said and written. It's useful advice, I think. Regards, Herb Johnson -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net preserve, recover, restore 1970's computing email: hjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT com or try later herbjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT info
"*People write or speak for some purpose.* *There may or may not be, evidence behind their words. Know the purposesand know the evidence, and then you can (if you wish) decide how toconsider what's said and writte**n*." Very true, a foundational aspect of critical thinking. Thank you, Herb. On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 1:01 PM Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
in reality it was a business deal that in essence traded Apple stock for use of Xerox IP
https://zurb.com/blog/steve-jobs-and-xerox-the-truth-about-inno
Web search for "apple Xerox business deal" found this link pretty quickly. It links to a New York Times article from 2011. As Tony Bogan says, there's probably more such reportage. However, there's also reportage that's just crap - based on speculation and opinion and hype for various purposes.
I myself, didn't know one way or another if there was a business deal between Apple/Jobs and Xerox. It was not hard to find out, presuming these are legitimate sources.
The chatter after the linked article is informative, because it includes first-hand testimony, plus informed opinions from actual experienced technical persons. Other commentary is fun to see. People not part of the events or items in question, split hairs about things like "innovate" versus "copy", "real genius", and who the heroes and villains "really" were.
I'm commenting, because I run across this stuff all the time, and I maintain my own Web site on vintage computing. I have to explain more and more history, because most of my site-readers now have no experience with my items from my era.
I could say more about history and evidence, and why people speak or write about something for one purpose or another. But I decided, it's enough to say the following. People write or speak for some purpose. There may or may not be, evidence behind their words. Know the purposes and know the evidence, and then you can (if you wish) decide how to consider what's said and written. It's useful advice, I think.
Regards, Herb Johnson -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net preserve, recover, restore 1970's computing email: hjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT com or try later herbjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT info
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