[LAU] FIC neo1973 linux mobile

[Marc-Olivier Barre]

On 9/23/07, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
> Bengt Gördén wrote:
> > tisdag 18 september 2007 20:45 skrev Marc-Olivier Barre:
> >> Fact : Did you know that Apple had the idea of the iPhone a few weeks
> >> after Sean Moss-Pultz (the project leader at FIC) made a public
> >> presentation of the openmoko project ? Funny...
> >
> > ..... it sound similar to when Jobs got his hallelujah moment when he was at
> > Xerox.
>
> Well, as one of the few folk that used Xerox's attempt to commercialize
> the GUI they developed at PARC - in the form of a documentation
> workstation they tried to sell for huge amounts of money - Jobs and
> Apple made it into something usable. The Xerox version simply WASN'T usable.

Good news, the Neo is ;-)
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