[Swordmaker]

A poorly researched Wall Street Journal article raises the "Apple stole the GUI" from Xerox MYTH to criticize Apple in the Samsung infringement decision—PING!

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[This Just In]

Have you read these articles?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57500273-37/apple-v-samsung-the-infringing-device-scorecard/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57500358-37/exclusive-apple-samsung-juror-speaks-out/

[Hodar]

The huffingtonpost had an intereresting blurb on this (and I feel dirty giving credit to the paper - but the article was great). Jobs and another engineer were there, looking at the “mouse” and how you could do drop down menu’s.

Jobs was excited, and animated at the age of 24, who asked them “Why aren’t you doing anyting with this?”. The article went on to detail the number of pre-IPO Apple stock that was offered - but did not detail what Xerox did with the stock. Xerox had a fortune in their hands, not just in Apple stock, but in IP that they essentially just threw away.

But, the fact remains ... Apple PAID for the stuff they got from Xerox PARC. Nothing was stolen.

[Hodar]

The huffingtonpost had an intereresting blurb on this (and I feel dirty giving credit to the paper - but the article was great). Jobs and another engineer were there, looking at the “mouse” and how you could do drop down menu’s.

Jobs was excited, and animated at the age of 24, who asked them “Why aren’t you doing anyting with this?”. The article went on to detail the number of pre-IPO Apple stock that was offered - but did not detail what Xerox did with the stock. Xerox had a fortune in their hands, not just in Apple stock, but in IP that they essentially just threw away.

But, the fact remains ... Apple PAID for the stuff they got from Xerox PARC. Nothing was stolen.