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Apple - Original Thief (maybe not)
Let's get the facts straight.

Xerox was not happy with the results of PARC research. They felt that it did not coincide with their direction. PARC employees (some of them good friends of Steve Jobs) invited Jobs to review the fruits of their labour. Steve Jobs, obviously impressed with the research, went on to develop the Lisa GUI with the help of former PARC employees. Xerox licensed Apple to implement Smalltalk (the base for Lisa) on Apple hardware.

"Although founded in 1970 as a research arm for Xerox, Xerox Parc ended up functioning more like an academic research center or a national computer lab whose innovations became part of the public domain than like the research-and-development arm of a corporation. Xerox management failed to see the opportunities afforded by many of the innovations at Parc, and many key innovators ended up defecting to start their own companies.

One such missed opportunity took place when Xerox management ordered resistant Parc employees to demonstrate the Alto's GUI to an aspiring computer jockey named Steve Jobs. Apple Computer's history tells the rest of that story."
- From Computerworld.com

Xerox would try to sue Apple for misrepresentation, but their lawsuit was weakened by the licencing of Smalltalk.
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This article is a bunch of malarkey  tic swayback | 06/28/04
It's anti Apple  Rick_K | 06/28/04
Desktop Accessories  Ken_z | 06/29/04
Tired old story  mlindl | 06/29/04
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Sorry Arlo, but you're the copycat.  Kurt Lang | 07/01/04
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