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GUI Pioneer Jef Raskin Has Passed Away

Posted by Zonk on from the :( dept.

Viridian writes "Jef Raskin, GUI pioneer, interface expert, Apple employee #31, and the man most credited with the creation of the Apple Macintosh, died of cancer on Saturday February 26, 2005. It was Raskin who named it after his favorite fruit, the McIntosh apple, although he said that he changed the spelling to "Macintosh" to avoid potential copyright conflicts with McIntosh, the audio equipment manufacturer."

4 of 353 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Nothing on the Apple Site by all+your+mwbassguy+a · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yeah, come on! thet had something for gregory hines when he died.

  2. Re:Nothing on the Apple Site by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe because he's the one decided one button mouse for macs.

  3. Trademark - not Copyright by hiddendoor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    although he said that he changed the spelling to "Macintosh" to avoid potential copyright conflicts with McIntosh, the audio equipment manufacturer

    This would actually be a trademark problem.

  4. I'll always .. by roror · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    pay my most sincere respect to the guy who named his biggest invention to his favorite fruit.

    Shows how much he loved apple the fruit.