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walrus01today at 12:57 AM4 repliesview on HN

Reminds me a bit of the anecdote of Steve Jobs complaining about people ripping off the Mac GUI, in the mid to late 1980s, when he gave no public acknowledgement to the work done by Xerox on the Alto and Star operating system.

"you're trying to rip off what I've already ripped off!"

Crawl the whole Internet to build a gargantuan sized LLM and then complain you're being copied...


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breputtoday at 1:00 AM

I think you meant a quote attributed to Bill 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."

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seanmcdirmidtoday at 1:03 AM

Apple gave Xerox the right to buy $1 million of pre-IPO stock before the meeting took place.

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taneqtoday at 1:01 AM

“You’re trying to kidnap what I’ve rightfully stolen!”

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nonethewisertoday at 1:05 AM

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