Yes, Apple got permission from Xerox to study their GUI. Xerox was compensated for that. But Apple DID have GUI studies going on before this. They were terrible but Apple was poking at the idea. The internal GUI studies were scrapped once they saw what the geniuses at PARC did. Everyone also seems to forget that Jobs utilized Object Oriented programming technology (also developed at PARC) when he created NeXT. All the *NIX people swoon over the API's of that OS, but forget that the technology was, in your words, 'stolen' from PARC as much as their GUI was. But is that OK because NextStep wasn't the MacOS or Windows? I began as a Mac user, moved to Windows, but I now love the BeOS. Please don't confuse me with someone who uses one OS and never migrates.
First off, I would like to thank you, sir, for changing the way 90% of the world does things. You have made a tremendous impact on everyone on this planet and you continue to do so. I know you flew for while. Do you still fly? Any preferred aircraft you like to pilot? Any that you would like to pilot?
Gimmick is a client being developed for the BeOS that can understand as many IM protocols as there is plug-ins for it. Drop an AIM plug-in into a folder, and you can get AIM messages. Drop an ICQ plug-in into a folder, and you can get ICQ messages. There is talk of a Jabber plug-in too. If there is anyone interested in it, please e-mail the guys who are working on it. They can use all the development help they can, and might be interested in helping port it to other platforms.
I find it interesting. I LOVED Legos as a child and on some occasions, I take them out of the attic and build build build. Now I'm a 20 year old Computer Science major. Did Linus play with Legos? "I'd like to die quietly in my sleep like Grandpa, and not screaming like all the passengers in his bus."
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Yes, Apple got permission from Xerox to study their GUI. Xerox was compensated for that. But Apple DID have GUI studies going on before this. They were terrible but Apple was poking at the idea. The internal GUI studies were scrapped once they saw what the geniuses at PARC did. Everyone also seems to forget that Jobs utilized Object Oriented programming technology (also developed at PARC) when he created NeXT. All the *NIX people swoon over the API's of that OS, but forget that the technology was, in your words, 'stolen' from PARC as much as their GUI was. But is that OK because NextStep wasn't the MacOS or Windows? I began as a Mac user, moved to Windows, but I now love the BeOS. Please don't confuse me with someone who uses one OS and never migrates.
First off, I would like to thank you, sir, for changing the way 90% of the world does things. You have made a tremendous impact on everyone on this planet and you continue to do so. I know you flew for while. Do you still fly? Any preferred aircraft you like to pilot? Any that you would like to pilot?
Gimmick is a client being developed for the BeOS that can understand as many IM protocols as there is plug-ins for it. Drop an AIM plug-in into a folder, and you can get AIM messages. Drop an ICQ plug-in into a folder, and you can get ICQ messages. There is talk of a Jabber plug-in too. If there is anyone interested in it, please e-mail the guys who are working on it. They can use all the development help they can, and might be interested in helping port it to other platforms.
I find it interesting. I LOVED Legos as a child and on some occasions, I take them out of the attic and build build build. Now I'm a 20 year old Computer Science major. Did Linus play with Legos? "I'd like to die quietly in my sleep like Grandpa, and not screaming like all the passengers in his bus."