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Watch out for Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, the motivated, sometimes creative, sometimes brilliant thief that can take your idea further than you ever dreamed. Th
by shingen 15y ago
Watch out for Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, the motivated, sometimes creative, sometimes brilliant thief that can take your idea further than you ever dreamed.
There's a huge potential value in some types of 'theft' (maybe not according to Xerox). The notion that in fact a thief might not be lazy, and in fact might do radically more with a premise than the originator ever could or would or dared to try to.
- DaniFong 15y agoI do argue that this is neither theft nor transcription, but transformation or inspiration. Xerox did, by the way, try to commercialize their technology. They just misfired massively. The Xerox Star bombed, because execution matters -- a main point.