There is a story I like to tell about how Bill Gates bought the complete rights to an operative system QDOS (Quick and dirty disk operationg system) developed by Tim Paterson in Seatle and the rebranded it and sold it onto IBM in a licensing deal. For fans of Microsoft this has always been apart of the Bill Gates hero's journey. One fact that is seldom included in this tale is that Gates mother was on the board of IBM at the time.
Another hero's story in computing history is that of Steve Jobs visit to Xerox in 1975 where he was inspired by a computer he saw there that eventually led to the development of Apples Mac series of computers. One detail I was unaware of until this evening was that Xerox had rebranded the Italian company Olivettis computer the M24 as the Xerox 6060 (AT&T rebranded the same machine as the PC 6300.
Americans tech shakers and movers have a fondness for taking credit for the work of others (Lee De Forest did a similar with amplification in the early radio era). It is a rebranding of much more complex stories that try to put the Tech Bro Entrepreneur in the forefront of a good old techbro story.
This evening I watched a Youtube video from the channel YouTux that was a very compelling tale of another story from the universe of digital development. Well worth watching!
