Steve Jobs: The difference of stealing yourself vs being stolen from

https://lemm.ee/post/5636484

Steve Jobs: The difference of stealing yourself vs being stolen from - lemm.ee

Something something Xerox
Eli5 about it? Please?

I think this captures the highlights of the issue.

businessinsider.com/bill-gates-answers-reddit-que…

Bill Gates' answer to a Reddit question about copying Steve Jobs

"The main 'copying' that went on relative to Steve and me is that we both benefited from the work that Xerox Parc did," Gates says.

Insider

I half expected you to just say “Google it”

Thanks man I appreciate it

Haha, I like this part:

As Walter Isaacson reported in his Steve Jobs biography, Gates responded: “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.”