The Xerox Thieves: Steve Jobs & Bill Gates
The personal computer is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century.
While Apple and Microsoft are the kings of the present day personal computer, the innovations that allowed them to dominate the industry were actually not their own.
This video explores a story that is as famous as it is misunderstood: How Steve Jobs and Bill Gates stole from Xerox.
Source: YouTube
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“While Apple and Microsoft are the kings of the present day personal computer”
Not because the systems are any good, but because they made sure the crown came to them by various means. I mean, come on, windows is as pitifull as ever, well actually no, it’s worse.
XP was the pinnacle m$ OS, with a decline from there.
Apple is just linux. There was a time I considered AppleOS to be innovative, with some real usefull tricks others couldn’t match, so I ran it under emulation, or later, on PC hardware (the hackintosh) with the modified OS images that supported standard PC drivers. Unfortunately, that’s history and now It’s a fashion accessory in whatever form it takes..
Catering for Microsoft has held back computer efficiency, and innovation for decades, and it just gets slower and quainter as time goes on.
M$ bring a shiny new bodyshell (GUI) out for their old banger (OS) when the newer processors are able to handle the extra slug the OS drags with it. Windows can bring any CPU to it’s knees given time.
Windows 11, rooted in 1998.
Both are control freaks, with m$ colluding with the likes of Intel to prevent user installs of older OS versions on hardware they didn’t want it on (forcing the loosely titled, ‘upgrade’ on end users), and apple just take the cake with bit matched accessories and spares. Apple don’t repair, they replace. Luckily there are third parties who can repair, even though they are up against a stacked deck as far as spare parts are concerned.
Just like most everything else on this planet, they became behemoths who don’t pay attention to users because users are a commodity, mainly considered irrelevant, and mean nothing other than quids or dollars – Microsoft in particular has you locked in to the cost of a pretty penny.
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Kevin Doyle
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The ‘Moral of the Story’ – Bill Gates has always been a sneaky, unethical piece of manure.
So, now do any of you want to listen to his preaching on ‘vaccines’ and ‘climate change’?
This guy wrote the book called, “Con-Artist 101”.
He became quite wealthy through his weasel techniques.
So did MIchael Bloomberg in New York. Bloomberg is wealthy because he has a monopoly on his trading machines, and their software updates. I.E. – Another guy who used bottom-feeding New York attorneys to dominate others.
These clowns are not interested in the ‘Free Market’. Instead, they want every Legal advantage they can obtain to earn money, including ‘borrowing’ ideas from other people.
I would think, as a philosophical matter, most designers, writers, photographers, and artists would be pretty pissed-off if someone ‘borrowed’ their work.
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Mario M
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Xerox produced also main frame, the Sigma series, before the arrival of the mini computer and pc. I worked with one of them for the Panavia consortium.
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Tom Anderson
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Also, IBM produced a “suitcase” style CRT portable computer a year or so ahead of Jobs and Wozniak’s entry to the market. I knew and spoke about it with one of the engineers involved. It was too early for a presentation video but he had a group photo of the design team. It worked as designed. IBM shelved it for what it perceived would be a lack of market interest.
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Maurice
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He always knew technology facilitates theft. His business model was to legalise theft through licencing.
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Squidly
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And there there’s Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey .. lots of tech billionaires stole their way to the top and continue to rape as many consumers at they can.
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