Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Great Moments in Intellectual Property

What they said at the 1983 meeting between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, when Microsoft announced plans for the graphical interface "Windows":
Jobs: "You're ripping us off! I trusted you, and now you're stealing from us!"

Gates: "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."

--From Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson

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