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[Ray Arachelian]

Warren Wolfe wrote:
>
>     It's too bad, in a way.  The effort put into the Lisa was
> gargantuan, and directed very well.  On its own, it was a great product.
> It was just the user interface which was appropriated without
> permission.  
I'm not sure that the above is correct.  All the historical sources
point to the exact opposite.  Steve Jobs gave Xerox a ton of Apple stock
to "sort of open the kimono at Xerox PARC."  It was allowed and well
known, and if you read the stories on folklore.org and compare a Star or
an Alto to a Lisa you'll find there are vast differences in the UI.  It
simply wasn't just copied, much less without permission.