Well then, you were entirely correct. I suppose that my search was both fairly cursory and didn't include all of the right search terms. I find it very surprising that this is the first I've heard of it, though; the "apple stole from xerox" meme is really entrenched, to the point that I never really doubted its truth.
I think it's fair to say that Xerox seriously undervalued their IP, but that was a well documented failing of their management who didn't see the potential that Jobs did in personal computing.
Arguably we're fortunate that he struck this deal and brought these ideas into production much more effectively than Xerox was doing.
On the same note, look at the differences in the actual manipulation of the UI elements between the Macintosh and the Xerox workstations. The differences are very interesting.
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Well then, you were entirely correct. I suppose that my search was both fairly cursory and didn't include all of the right search terms. I find it very surprising that this is the first I've heard of it, though; the "apple stole from xerox" meme is really entrenched, to the point that I never really doubted its truth.
I think it's fair to say that Xerox seriously undervalued their IP, but that was a well documented failing of their management who didn't see the potential that Jobs did in personal computing.
Arguably we're fortunate that he struck this deal and brought these ideas into production much more effectively than Xerox was doing.
On the same note, look at the differences in the actual manipulation of the UI elements between the Macintosh and the Xerox workstations. The differences are very interesting.