| Subject | Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] | From | Mirar <> | Date | 27 Apr 2003 19:49:20 +0200 |
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> With your reasoning, all version control programs are stolen from > the first one, whatever that was (does anyone remember?).
It's bound to be something related to RCS (which CVS was built on).
> The idea of using a display (possibly graphical) with multiple > windows was at one time such a new thing. This does not mean that > any subsequent implementation of such a system is copied, or stolen, > from the original inventor (who was that?).
Xerox. (Yes, same X as in X11, if I understand correctly.) I think they gave the idea away freely to Apple.
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