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The Graphing Calculator Story (2004)

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Re: The Graphing Calculator Story (2004)

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Post by joshhart » Fri, May 02, 2014, 2:24 AM UTC

avitzur wrote: post #10

3JPLW wrote: post #5

And here's the NYT story: http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/11/business/chip-makers-compe... It's a shame the photo is missing.

http://www.pacifict.com/images/nyt.jpg

Apparently Steve Newman worked on it too. Is this the same Steve Newman that famously founded Writely (became Google Docs) and almost won at Topcoder one year?

Re: The Graphing Calculator Story (2004)

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Post by avitzur » Fri, May 02, 2014, 5:02 AM UTC

joshhart wrote: post #11

avitzur wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.pacifict.com/images/nyt.jpg

Apparently Steve Newman worked on it too. Is this the same Steve Newman that famously founded Writely (became Google Docs) and almost won at Topcoder one year?

Yes, as well as FullWrite and many other products.

Re: The Graphing Calculator Story (2004)

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Post by yitchelle » Fri, May 02, 2014, 7:53 AM UTC

At the end of the story, it said that

"Postscript: After the events described, we made everything retroactively legitimate by licensing the software to Apple for distribution"

It is noble that Apple is licensing the software from them. As the story were told, Apple would have pretty good grounds (developed using Apple property etc) to claim full ownership of the Graphing Calculator software. Kudos to Apple!

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