I probably shouldn’t have used the word ‘stole’. I should have used the word ‘took’, which doesn’t imply theft.
My point was that Apple Heads talk as if the GUI was invented by Apple and that big bad Microsoft took their original idea.
They didn’t take Apple’s original idea. They took Xerox’ original idea, just like Apple did.[/quote]
Svelte: Actually, Xerox pretty much handed the technology to Apple. There was a cheapo stock deal that Apple offered in exchange, but Xerox had NO interest in developing/marketing/selling the Alto.
Philosophically speaking, you could probably call it a “steal” because, in that sense, it was.
