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you could accuse them of, once again, stealing ideas from Xerox PARC To steal means to deprive someone of something that by all rights they should have had. So
by eevilspock 15y ago
you could accuse them of, once again, stealing ideas from Xerox PARC
To steal means to deprive someone of something that by all rights they should have had. So the only way this could be construed as theft is if Xerox PARC's plan was to wait 20-30 years and then capitalize on the idea. But damn, Apple stole it at the last moment!
To prevent the world from benefiting from an idea just because it came to you first is the ultimate theft. Fortunate the Xerox PARC guys are not evil or dishonest and won't charge Apple with theft. If they don't call it theft, no one else can.