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I took your challenge

Now, while it's certainly true that Apple has a history of running
roughshod over the little guy, I couldn't help but notice some
errors on your post.

Wow, when did Microsoft buy Netscape?

Netscape is the little guy? I think you'd best do more research.

Do you really believe
the idea of a web-publishing program originated with this
developer? Have you ever heard of a program called
Dreamweaver or GoLive, or, gasp, FrontPage?

Then don't bring up Netscape since it was hardly a new product. Netscape is a blatant ripoff of a Gopher front end, a protocol created at the University of Minnesota which was probably in some way ripped off from Apple's Hypercard (which Apple didn't even write, innovation indeed!!) which was ripped off from Guide on Unix which was ripped off from Hypertext editing system (1968) at Brown University and so on.

Actually, in this case, Konfabulator was a ripoff of Desk
Accessories from the original Macintosh in 1984. Details here:
http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/dashboard_vs_konfabulator

Sorry, sounds like Apple ripped that off from The Desk Organizer which came out before Desk Accessories but sounds the same:
Here?s Hertzfeld on the origin of desk accessories:

Bud Tribble was usually on an even keel, but one afternoon in the fall of 1981 he came into my office, unusually excited. ?You know, I?ve been thinking about it. Even if we can only run one major application at a time, there?s no reason that we can?t also have some little miniature applications running in their own windows at the same time.?

The point is that there are very few things in science that are true revolutionary breakthroughs and the same holds true in computers. Most things are evolutionary in nature. "Hmm, what happens if we take this program and make it work with that one." "Hmm, what happens if we use this guy's idea but in a slightly different way?" Most of the truly revolutionary ideas were thought up at Universities or by the little guy yet it is almost always companies like Apple and Microsoft who end up with the profits.

Oh, there are other differences, particularly when it comes to
convictions for breaking the law.

Gotta give you that one. I guess Apple has something in common with OJ then since neither were convicted of breaking the law!

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