How Steve Jobs Stole the GUI from Xerox
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Uploaded by Jon2fine on Apr 19, 2010
Where Steve Jobs really got the idea for the graphical user interface. This clip is from PBS Triumph of the Nerds (1996).
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Don't blame anyone as you don't know all of him!
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@lucylovesguitar Same here! I hate when people say they "stole" the idea. I hate how others also say that they stole the mouse idea. They didn't. The inventor the the mouse, Doug Engelbart, sold his patent to Apple for like $40k.
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@lucylovesguitar Then explain why Xerox released their own personal computer? Why would a competing company want another company to use their idea if it will detract sales from their own product?
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How can you steal a GUI from a printer paper company?
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In exchange for Xerox's technology Apple had to give Xerox a large number of shares of Apple's stock. Apple did not steal Xerox technology, they had to pay for it.
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"Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal"
4 weeks ago 2
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Well the problem I have with both Apple and Microsoft on the matter is that they both do "firsting" on the matter on who is the real innovator of the GUI and lock anyone out from trying to complete with them by filing BS copyrights and IP's on stuff on the GUI
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Stole??? You mean build upon??
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Who cears? it was incomplete anyway...
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What a clown.
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@tapo Finally! Someone who knows what really happened! I'm so sick of hearing people talking about how Apple "stole" from Xerox. No, they didn't! They invited Steve in because they wanted to invest in Apple, and they were giving him tech they didn't want so he'd allow them some shares.
lucylovesguitar 3 months ago 27
R.I.P. Steve Jobs
myzia14 3 months ago 13