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# Microsoft always steal others good ideas

*cough*shite xbox*cough*
(Budgie shouldn't be on here, Tue 11 Feb 2003, 16:20, archived)
# hmm unlike everybody else
*cough*macos/xerox*cough*
(I helped save b3ta! Darkedge, Tue 11 Feb 2003, 16:27, archived)
# Just a bit biased
to nintendo thats all...
(Budgie shouldn't be on here, Tue 11 Feb 2003, 16:29, archived)
# err
yes.. hmm sorry they did invent the good joypad but they ripped off atari. Nuff said
and the italian poof plumber can fuck right off.
(I helped save b3ta! Darkedge, Tue 11 Feb 2003, 16:33, archived)
# Sorry as well
too youthful to remember atari...
(Budgie shouldn't be on here, Tue 11 Feb 2003, 16:37, archived)
# Indeed Xerox!
I take it you read up on the subject?
If not, i suggest you do here or here from the people at Xerox themselves!
Thank you very mucho!
(SYS64738, Tue 11 Feb 2003, 16:32, archived)
# thanks for the info
have heard so many contrasting comments over the years - they did/they didn't.. etc.
good to have another didn't one (compared to all the dids out there).
(I helped save b3ta! Darkedge, Tue 11 Feb 2003, 16:38, archived)
# Well, if you don't believe the people who actually were part of it..
..but some second-hand Robert Cringely-Propaganda (see "Holes in the histories" by Jef Raskin!) from "Pirates of Silicon Valley"/""Triumph of the Geeks" i dunno! ;-)

The only true source is the people who were part of it. Period. Except for Bill ofcourse, he's been proven to "alter" the past to his needs before, hehe!..
(SYS64738, Tue 11 Feb 2003, 16:44, archived)