Re: [LAU] FIC neo1973 linux mobile

From: david <gnome@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Sep 23 2007 - 09:04:47 EEST

Bengt Gördén wrote:
> tisdag 18 september 2007 20:45 skrev Marc-Olivier Barre:
>> Fact : Did you know that Apple had the idea of the iPhone a few weeks
>> after Sean Moss-Pultz (the project leader at FIC) made a public
>> presentation of the openmoko project ? Funny...
>
> ..... it sound similar to when Jobs got his hallelujah moment when he was at
> Xerox.

Well, as one of the few folk that used Xerox's attempt to commercialize
the GUI they developed at PARC - in the form of a documentation
workstation they tried to sell for huge amounts of money - Jobs and
Apple made it into something usable. The Xerox version simply WASN'T usable.

-- 
David
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