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Originally Posted by red-beard
Apple did not BUY the GUI from Xerox.
TW: is this right? You were there about that time
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Thanks for asking. It was after my time with Apple, but the story is well-documented. Apple gave Xerox $1 million in Apple stock (circa 1979/80) for the rights to use aspects of the Xerox PARC-developed interface. So, they licensed the technology. If you want to run the numbers on what $1 million in Apple stock from that era is worth today, the number is staggering.