[achilles2000]

I wasn’t saying that he stole the ideas, but I also am reasonably sure he didn’t pay for them. In any event, the GUI ideas didn’t originate with Apple. Xerox made several thousand Alto computers that used the interface (and mouse) for universities and reseachers. Strangely, Xerox lacked a serious interest in commercializing its GUI. Had Xerox realized what it had, the history of Xerox and the micro-computer industry would have been radically rewritten.

[Terpfen]

I wasn’t saying that he stole the ideas, but I also am reasonably sure he didn’t pay for them.

You are reasonably wrong. Apple licensed the relevant technology from Xerox, meaning they paid Xerox before putting something on the market.

Xerox made several thousand Alto computers that used the interface (and mouse) for universities and reseachers.

Which is irrelevant to whether or not Apple paid for or stole Xerox's ideas. As they paid for ideas Xerox, by your own admission, had no interest in using, your earlier post is false.

[Lazamataz]

Had Xerox realized what it had, the history of Xerox and the micro-computer industry would have been radically rewritten.

Xerox management is Kodak writ small.