What your missing is the legal status of the work done
at PARC. It was
in (large) part done with grant money
This is the second time that you have said this, Bob.
In all of the years I've been collecting information
on PARC's research computers, I have never seen any
mention of any money from outside of Xerox Corportation
being used to fund their research. Where, exactly, did
you see this information?
There are ties between SRI and PARC, esp through the
people from Englebart's lab that went to PARC, and it
is well documented that his research was DARPA funded.