The State of Linux Docks »
Posted By schestowitz 1 year, 2 months ago in Science & TechnologyBrief history of Docks: NeXTstep was first to introduce the idea of “ docks” in an operating system back in 1989 when neXTstep 1.0 was first released. Later as most of Nextstep' s codebase was used on OpenStep and then on OS X, “ dock” was one of the few original and the most prominent features that stayed with OS X. Looking Glass was a free open source dock written in Java, developed by a Sun Microsystem employee in his spare time on a Linux laptop. It was first demonstrated publicly in 2003. There is an argument among fanboys that Apple stole took the idea of 3D look and feel from the Project Looking Glass, to give apple docks its present look; however there is no question that Apple, which bought NeXTstep (founded by Steve Jobs), was the original developer of the concept of “ docks” . As of October 8, 2008 Apple was awarded patent for Mac OS X Dock after waiting for almost nine years.
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