Did Bill Gates really copy from Steve Jobs?

[Muz1234]

Did Bill Gates really steal the idea from Steve Jobs of the invention of the personal computer?

 

[thomas]

None of us could possibly answer that question but there is plenty of material online:

How did Bill Gates steal Steve Jobs’ idea? - Quora

Did Bill Gates steal Steve Jobs’ Windows idea from the Macintosh product launch?

Answer (1 of 4): Truth is neither of them invented the “Windows” style desktop and mouse, here in the UK I had a Gem Desktop & Windows GUI driven by an infra red cable free mouse on a ‘Silicon Glen’ Scottish produced product from Apricot which pre dated both Mac & Windows. The essential R&D for ...

www.quora.com

https://www.cultofmac.com/469779/bill-gates-says-didnt-copy-steve-jobs-reddit-ama/

Top 5 Myths About Bill Gates

If you're one of the most well-known and well-off individuals in the world, people are bound to make up stories about you. Why are there so many crazy stories about the co-founder of Microsoft?

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Did Bill Gates steal the GUI concept from Steve Jobs?

The Jobs movie alleged that Bill Gates swiped the idea of a Graphical User Interface (GUI) on a personal computer (PC) from Steve Jobs. Can anyone explain to me the exact story on what happened in ...

history.stackexchange.com

Come one, Muz, you could have googled that yourself!

 

[musicisgood]

I thought he bought the idea from IBM

 

[tomoni]

Depends what you are taking about....

The original Microsoft operating system was based on open ware....

The GUI One might say that it was copied from Apple, and in fact Microsoft paid them a settlement for it, but by the same token it might be said that Apple copied it from Xerox.

Charity-I think Bill Gates didn’t copy this from anyone, and in fact he set the standard. It would be nice if Steve Jobs had copied a little bit about that...

My take aside, the links provided by Thomas above give a much better summary

 

[Nuala]

Apple stole a lot from Xerox back in the day to develop it's GUI, and naturally that led to Microsoft developing a GUI for it's OS too. It's a moot question. GUI were the inevitable result of further home computer development.

Charity? Steve Jobs was nowhere near as charitable as Bill Gates.