Patents? Disappointed? Don’t think of it that way. Software patents weren’t feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000.

Patents? Disappointed? Don’t think of it that way. Software patents weren’t feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000.
BOB FRANKSTON

Patent Risk Thinking
Just had to keep debugging by isolating a problem, looking at memory in the limited debugging (weaker than the DOS DEBUG and no symbols) patch and retry and then re-program, download and try again. And again.
BOB FRANKSTON

Debug Download Looking Program Retry
Early Apple machines – don’t know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools.
BOB FRANKSTON

Apples Memories Trying
Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people’s stories and trying to make a magazine article.
BOB FRANKSTON

People Stories Trying
This is an important part of the Internet Dynamic – providing opportunity and not guarantees.
BOB FRANKSTON

Guarantees Important Opportunity

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