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IBM To Linux Desktop Developers: 'Stop Copying Windows' (InformationWeek)

IBM To Linux Desktop Developers: 'Stop Copying Windows' (InformationWeek)

Posted Aug 9, 2008 1:25 UTC (Sat) by brouhaha (subscriber, #1698)
In reply to: IBM To Linux Desktop Developers: 'Stop Copying Windows' (InformationWeek) by markhb
Parent article: IBM To Linux Desktop Developers: 'Stop Copying Windows' (InformationWeek)

if you wanted to create a document on the desktop, you created one from a template (i.e., instantiated an object)
Another example of how everyone is actually following Apple's lead. That's exactly how the Lisa desktop worked. Xerox invented the GUI desktop, but almost all the innovation in it since 1983 has come from Apple, not Microsoft or IBM.


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