Some of you will remember how Bill Gates responded to Steve Jobs' claims of Windows being a rip-off:
Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. 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.
What most people don't know is that Xerox knew exactly what they were doing when they agreed to show him everything. Xerox's own researcher Adele Goldberg tried for hours to tell the executives that the company was about to "give away the kitchen sink" to no avail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1rXqD6M614
I originally posted this at sort of an awkward time, and I've been meaning to bump it in hopes of getting a conversation going, since this forum has always had a strong opinion about Jobs.
https://youtu.be/TRZAJY23xio?t=2520
As a bonus, here's him answering what it means when he says your work is shit. It should start around 24:00.
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