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Originally posted by nostatic
Len, Jobs "pirated" it from PARC, Gates stole it from Apple. That is the lore at least. It is more complicated than that of course, but I believe that is the gist.
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Just saw this. Jobs did not 'pirate' the GUI from PARC. He asked them if they intended to market it and they (PARC) told him that Headquarters had no interest in it. jobs gave Xerox a block of Apple stock to pay for the GUI idea and developed it.
In '83, when Microsoft was my client, they claimed to me that they 'helped' in finalizing the Macintosh GUI, but of course, by then, the Lisa had been out for a while, so I doubt the Boys from Redmond made any significant contribution.
The story is well-told in a book called Apple Confidential 2.0. (you'll find a reference to me on page 12.)
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