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Current_Bad201 t1_j1r2c65 wrote

Reply to comment by TheUmgawa in TIL Douglas Engelbart never received any royalties for the invention of the mouse. In an interview he said "SRI (Stanford Research Institute) patented the mouse, but they had no idea of its value. Some years later it was known that they had licensed it to Apple Computer for something like $40,000." by whoiskamalsingh

The weird thing about your post -- which I think is a fine analysis, -- is that it's all about the machinations of those three tech companies.

Meanwhile Doug Engelbart, over at Stanford/SRI, who started the whole thing by inventing the mouse, not only got nothing, but Stanford itself only got $40k out of it.

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substantial-freud t1_j2asb2r wrote

He drew his salary. And if he had produced nothing, he would have drawn his salary.

That’s the deal he chose. He didn’t complain, why should you?

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