Xerox is an idiot

I used to work as a computer repair tech. I took a computer repair course and learned everything I needed to know about MSDOS, Windows 3.1, and Windows95. It was 1997 and the A+Certification test for computer repair was still testing on DOS and Windows 3.1 so even though Win95 was already out I had to learn everything about Win3.1 and Win3.11, which was the business version at the time. During that course we learned some computer history but since it was a pc repair course Apple was only mentioned as being a different course. The thing I don't remember being mentioned at all was Xerox having any part in computer history. We were told that Microsoft stole the idea of the GUI and the mouse from Apple, but not that Apple actually stole it from Xerox. This would have given me a whole new respect for Xerox as a company, except that they gave it all away. Now I see it as a demonstration of what happens if the people in control of a big company have no insight into technological advancement and the effects those changes are likely to have in society. They should have listened to their geeks!