Microsoft - Apple - Google - patents (Score 1)

Ok look at the history of programming language and AT&T operating system -

Prior Art

Given any one who has completed computer science course work from 1967 till present

understands that we learn from previous life-cycle
of programming language(s) &&
operating system(s) target for
specific
platform - hardware or
virtual - say browser or
cloud

Please refer to Prior art of AT&T Bell Labs before the
break up - per gov request / judgement

per rules of current
game

Can I Use Someone Else's Work? Can Someone Else Use Mine?

http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html

The programming language C

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/101311-ritchie-251936.html

The operating system - AT&T Unix

we all remember the nightmare of SCO - patent troll offender

http://www.pcworld.com/article/137234/sco_declares_bankruptcy.html

http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/09/14/sco.bankruptcy/

So the folks who main existence started with the principle lifting from -

Original authors Basic language before - principle re-wrote for specific platform (hw)

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~vox/0304/0503/basic.html

Most like various - sci fi there was the

Clone wars of

browsers on desktop computers from 90s

to present day but on different platform - now mobile devices

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Internet_Explorer

Where apple learned from - Xerox

Borrowed Xerox Parc - GUI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdrKWArr3XY

History of Spread Sheet
http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2002/cmsc434-0101/MUIseum/applications/spreadsheethistory1.html

rem Multiplan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan

Finally

OS on desktop

below is nice - visual history
oh who was the parent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_onj4isp9fY

Apple Principle
APPLE HISTORY - Keynote 1983 - Steve Jobs annouces the first Macintosh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRWvCAuJ048&feature=related

Bill Gates Praising Apple Computers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uau0aIbrzkQ&feature=related

hmmm
REM past