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- > 4) John Sculley whining that Microsoft "stole" "Apple's" look
- and
- > feel, an hour after we were informed that, of course, "Apple's"
- look
- > and feel came from Xerox PARC. A journalist woould have noticed
- the
- > irony; sadly there was no journalist involved with the
- broadcast.
-
- My take on the arrangement of the bits --- first Xerox PARC and
- then Scully whining about look & feel --- was that it showed a
- delightful sense of dry irony. To have a narrator pointing out
- what the arrangement made obvious would have sweetened things into
- sugary cloyity.
-
- Would it have spoiled some vast celestial plan to have had a Pammy
- walk-by? Or did I miss it?
-
- Henning Leidecker
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