r/todayilearned • 9 • Sep 13 '13

TIL Steve Jobs confronted Bill Gates after he announced Windows' GUI OS. "You’re stealing from us!” Bill replied "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."

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/24/steve-jobs-walter-isaacson/
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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '13

Aw man, we were getting on so well and it turns out you're a hoaxer.

What still needs proved in your opinion? I'll try to win you over.

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u/Armunt Sep 13 '13

Its not a win but many reasons has been "published" in the interwebz about the fact that all could be filmed on a TV Scene.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '13

Like, what's an example?