[Eug-lug] Favourite WM/Desktop

[T. Joseph CARTER]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 06:38:57PM -0800, Mike Cherba wrote:
> It might be better to state that the original MAC, Like every other GUI
> since then was inspired by the work from XEROX PARC.  There's been no
> real fundamental improvement in interface design since the original
> GUIs.  Just more bells and whistles.

That is the excuse usually given by Microsoft when confronted with
accusations of stealing the Mac interface.

Truth is that Apple bought it from Xerox and modified it greatly.  Yes,
there were windows, there were icons, and there was a mouse pointer.  That
is about where the similarity ends.  If you can say that makes all
graphical interfaces basically the same, then explain why there are dozens
of window managers out there for X11?  Surely they can't all be different
sets of icons and graphics--one window manager could do that.


Microsoft didn't go to Xerox to decide how to do their GUI, they went to
Apple.  And so did everyone else.