[Tfug] Some news in hackintosh circles..

[Bowie J. Poag]

It won't...and can't, and shouldn't.  That's how things evolve. 
Technology moves in whatever direction and co-opts whatever medium is 
advantageous to it at any given moment. If it weren't Jobs visiting 
Xerox PARC, it would have been someone else. If it weren't for Gates 
ripping off Gary Kildall, it would have been someone else. The events 
themselves are unimportant. Plus or minus any of them, we'd be in the 
same situation, except instead of complaining about Windows, we'd be 
complaining about flaky GEM is in Atari TOS 2008 Edition is, or about 
how our Commodore C4096's custom chips can't keep pace with what 
Evergreen is coming out with when it comes to memexing the grid. Thank 
god Intel went out of business back in '89 when the 486 flopped.

It ceases to be stealing when what you steal has no worth.



Judd Pickell wrote:
> That was kind of my point.. Where does it stop? ;)
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Bowie J. Poag <bpoag at comcast.net 
> <mailto:bpoag at comcast.net>> wrote:
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>
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>     ...and Xerox ripped off Sutherland's Sketchpad, and Von Neumann's
>     Memex.
>
>
>     Judd Pickell wrote:
>
>         I find that a funny statement, since isn't everyone with a
>         visual OS ripping off Xerox?
>          
>
>            Who knows...witth their bread and butter gone, maybe they'll go
>            back where they belong..... ripping off CP/M and writing BASIC
>            interpreters. :)
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