<i>Adele Goldberg, who held the meeting with Jobs is still around and would tend to disagree.</i><p>Adele is right that the Star pioneered graphical computing.  I a somewhat amazed at how little credit people today give to Xerox PARC team.  But to say that it was stolen is misleading.  The Mac was not a clone of the Star but a derivative system with usability improvements and resource compromises to allow it to run on consumer hardware.  (Compare this to Windows, which was a half-hearted implementation of the Mac, compromised to run on common consumer hardware.)<p>If Xerox had actually productized the Star, it would have sat on the desks of publishers and C-level executives, and probably have been mostly forgotten.  Jobs certainly stole Adele's thunder, but I think that he did the right thing.<p><i>You might want to read "Dealers of Lightning" which details a lot of this. It's a great read.</i><p>I'll check it out.  Much of this was also covered in Triumph of the Nerds.