Discussione:Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

ritengo esagerata la definizione di "ladro" assegnata a Jobs a seguito dello sviluppo di Macintosh. La stessa versione in lingua inglese di Wiki da una versione assai più equilibrata:

The first successful commercial GUI product was the Apple Macintosh, which was heavily inspired by PARC's work; Xerox was given Apple stock in exchange for engineer visits and an understanding that Apple would create a GUI product. Much later, in the midst of the Apple v. Microsoft lawsuit in which Apple accused Microsoft of violating its copyright by appropriating the use of the "look and feel" of the Macintosh GUI, Xerox also sued Apple on the same grounds. The lawsuit was dismissed on a technicality — Xerox had waited too long to file suit and the statute of limitations had expired. However, some dispute the degree to which the Apple interface was derived from Xerox designs[1]. Indeed, prior to Apple's visits to PARC, its Macintosh project more closely resembled the Valdocs operating system of the Epson QX-10.

Invito inoltre a leggere

http://www.mackido.com/Interface/ui_history.html

con una versione ricca di riferimenti storici molto credibili.

AC