Yes, I think the Gates quote was a response to repeated and aggressive complaints originating from Jobs (to anyone who would listen) that he had been ripped off.
replyI don't know if that's a real quote from Gates, but I do know it was in Pirates of Silicon Valley.
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Neat, so the scene in the movie was pretty close to reality then!
replyI thought Xerox demoed something they haven’t implemented yet, and Apple turned a mockup into a real GUI.
replyThey implemented it. They just couldn't get out of their own way to successfully sell it (See "Dealer's of Lightning"[0])
reply0 - https://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer...
No that is not true. Read about PARC and all the crazy tech they built some time. It was ahead of its time!
replyThey changed the live system from having line by line scrolling to pixel scrolling after Jobs asked why they didn't do it during the lunch break.
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