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Nit picking Microsoft gets hit by people, for ripping off Mac, only when those people have forgotten that the Mac was a rip off of Xerox Sparc, which was put into the public domain to benefit education, because Xerox did not see a market for GUI. If push button controls were an MSFT invention, then they independently duplicated the prior art. It is not unusual in the computer world for something to be developed for some system, then again for another, then again, then again, then again, to infinity, without referring to the prior art. I suspect, but am not sure, that Microsoft invented hyper linking. That's where you have an Internet url underlined in blue, or documentation with a word underlined in blue. - Al Macintyre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AlMac http://www.ryze.com/go/Al9Mac BPCS/400 Computer Janitor ... see http://radio.weblogs.com/0107846/stories/2002/11/08/bpcsDocSources.html
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