[vcf-midatlantic] Xerox Wildflowers - Dandelions and Daybreaks
Herb Johnson
hjohnson at retrotechnology.info
Tue Aug 18 12:57:42 EDT 2020
> 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
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