8th February 2006, 5:46 PM
Quote:Just to clarify this, but Apple didn't "rip off" Xerox. Apple paid Xerox for a demonstration of their GUI as Xerox had no plans to put it into production. A little different than stealing, but I will be the first to admit that Apple didn't invent the GUI.
Essentially Apple visited Xerox's labs and said "Hey, we like that mouse and graphical OS idea, let's copy/steal the idea from them!"
... which is why it's pretty funny that then Microsoft did exactly the same thing to Apple when they went to make Windows... :)
Of course, Microsoft didn't invent the OS that made them rich, they bought CP/M and based MS-DOS off of it, but at least there they clearly paid for the rights to the product. :)