There is no copy or everyone is copying

Just Before Apple Mac started to take more and more market shares, an old news about how Bill Gates copied Steve Jobs' original ideas of making the graphical user interface based operating systems were heating up. A lot of people, especially the apple fans truly believed that Mr Jobs is the true idea man in the world, and most importantly, they believed that the all time richest man in the world is a big copy cat. Really!? one thing to say about this case is that those kids should really become more mature and learn that they really should talk about something that they didn't really see or it's just totally gossip. Bill Gates isn't really a copy cat no matter what he did before. He has been the real technology leader for so long that he can predict what the technology world will evolve to. Or more precisely, he's mind drives the tech world. There are some facts that can better explain. Tablets idea has existed for long before iPad even started being shaped in the uterus. The idea may not belong to Mr Gates but he has been the most important player because without Microsoft's tabletnpc specification, there would not be any oem tablet existing. Software capability has driven the hardware industry, and software is driven by consumer needs. The second example, around late 2010, an Tv interview was hosted and both Mr Gates and Mr Jobs were the main guests. Bill Gates was asked for the future technology preview. Mr Gates talked about Internet edition. He thinks where you learnt from web should be high lighted,Just like a degree. He believes that no matter how you came about your knowledge, you should get credit for it. Whether it’s an MIT degree or if you got everything you know from lectures on the web, there needs to be a way to highlight. He said “Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world." Look at what those tech companies are doing now, for example Apple ITunesU. It is only 2012, which is 2 years from that interview. Can you say that Steve was copying Bill? There isn't really such a thing called copy. Copying means that one takes the other's work and make it his/her own. Did Mr.Gates take Mr Jobs work and make it his own? In fact, if you read Paul Allen's Idea Man , you would know that Microsoft found the GUI OS company earlier than Apple and windows OS was just the result of fair market competitation. If we call that a copy, then everyone is copying; Hyundai is copying Lexus to make their Equus. No that's not copying. It's just inspired by.