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I thought Steve Jobs and Bill Gates both stole their GUI's from Xerox (?)
by nfriedly 15y ago
I thought Steve Jobs and Bill Gates both stole their GUI's from Xerox (?)
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- Perceval 15y agoSteve Jobs allowed Xerox to buy pre-IPO stock in Apple in exchange for Xerox allowing Apple engineers to come to PARC to look at their GUI, with the understanding the Apple would be making a GUI-based product. Apple and Microsoft had no such understanding or exchange.
- sireat 15y agoThere is certainly some substance to this argument: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=A_Rich_Neighbor_Named_Xerox.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...