[achilles2000]

Jobs took the whole icon interface idea from Xerox.

[Terpfen]

Jobs took the whole icon interface idea from Xerox.

No, he didn't. He paid Xerox for the rights to use concepts they had no intention of implementing.

[max americana]

>Jobs took the whole icon interface idea from Xerox.<

It was the other way around, FRiend. Bill Gates was the one who “borrowed” the idea because he simply...asked Xerox if they can “please” demonstrate for a private party how this GUI thing works.

That was the time that he explained to Ballmer that “throughout history, geniuses have stolen ideas and they never borrow” (something like that)