>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)
I think you will find you have confused things. Apple adopted the Xerox GUI (and mouse)first. Some years later Microsoft incorporated it in Windows. Then in 1988 Apple sued Microsoft for copyright infringement. Apple lost almost all of its case in court, but the matter wasn’t finally settled until 1997.
The truly creative guys were the SRI/Xerox PARC computer scientists. Apple just got lucky on the GUI and, I think, never paid Xerox a cent for the GUI (Apple did hire some of the Xerox/PARC team, though). Losing to Microsoft was karma.