By Seb Janacek
Published: Thursday 03 March 2005
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Brian Catt
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Business Developer
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I didn't know that, thanks. Interesting that Apple, who also had command line PCs with Apple II, went for a displacement technology on the limit of what evolving technology could deliver, while the likes of Microsoft and IBM fought against the innovation for as long as they could. Remember the Gates picture swinging a mouse by the cable? That picture should be shown any time Gates talks about innovation - MS bought and marketed eveything of substance from DOS on up. MS is a great commercial business marketing other people's ideas, not an innovator. Apple remains both creator and marketer, vive le difference!
Why don't the press ever say Windows 2.0 and 3.0 were created from a licensed Mac OS?
Finally its strange that Jobs should have had Pancreatic cancer and Rankin died of it - wonder what they shared back then that could have caused that, its not a common cancer to my knowledge. Wonder if others in that group have died the same way?
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