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Originally Posted by Talldog
I wonder how many people even remember that Apple themselves stole the window GUI interface, which was actually developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
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Originally Posted by hrosvit
This.
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Apple did not steal the window GUI interface from Xerox.
They bought it. They also greatly improved it - the Xerox interface didn't have overlapping windows at all. It needed
Bill Atkinson's regions to allow overlapping non-rectangular windows.