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A2200

    26-Nov-94 14:07:55
Sb: #174245-A2200
Fm: John Bittner 72245,1110
To: Lu Beranek 100033,3576
>>Xerox set up an whole lab to work on GUI. They worked on it for 10 years >>before deciding it wasn't a goer. Right, and Apple hired the guys who had developed the stuff for Xerox. Alan Kay was one. >>The funny part was that after Apple had been suing MS for 1 – 2 years, >>Xerox turned around and started suing Apple for the same thing. The suit against Apple was dismissed on some technicality, I don't recall what, but Xerox had failed to do something to protect their work.