>Of course, Bill Gates had a different take on that. In the early days of Windows Steve Jobs was furious and had Gates come to Apple HQ for a meeting. "You stole my product!" Gates's response was, "I feel like maybe I broke into the house of a guy named Xerox to steal his TV, and found you had already stolen it." (Personally I don't have much sympathy for Xerox. Yes, they developed many of the principles at PARC Labs, but had no idea how to sell anything PC related to anyone).

It's amusing that the "we're a copier company, we don't sell computers" attitude that Xerox had regardfing the PARC-developed system (which was many years in advance of what Macintosh would later introduce -- the PARC system was more than a GUI -- it was an entire office system) seems to parallel IBM's response was to the xerographic printing process ("we sell computers, we're not in the printing business"). [at least according to legend] IIRC IBM tried to sue Xerox over rights to the xerographic process.