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GUI Pioneer Jef Raskin Has Passed Away
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."
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yeah, come on! thet had something for gregory hines when he died.
Maybe because he's the one decided one button mouse for macs.
I wish the best for his family, friends and former co-workers during this time, but him worrying about infringing McIntosh copyrights when your company name is already Apple is pretty much moot.
Personally, I would have named it "Granny Smith"...
Trying to get that karma up, huh troll?
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.
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.