I do believe that is right. Xerox Palo Alto (Parc) created the GUI and
the mouse on the Alto series of machines iirc.
IIRC, Sun Microsystems is the only company I'm aware of which pays Xerox
a fee to license these concepts.
Regards,
Jeff
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Didn't Xerox or someone like that invent the GUI?