Hiltzik: When Steve Jobs got a show-and-tell at Xerox - Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-03-24/inside-the-1979-silicon-valley-demo-that-made-apple-what-it-is-today?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fapple
Gates responded, “Steve, I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”
Imagine where Apple would have been if Xerox had patented the ideas they developed for the Alto...
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