The difference of stealing yourself vs being stolen from

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Eli5 about it? Please?

I think this captures the highlights of the issue.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-answers-reddit-question-about-copying-steve-jobs-2017-3

Haha, I like this part:

[…] Gates responded: "Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."