Steve Jobs quoted Picasso when he was talking about taste. In the movie he talks about when you want to replicate something you bring in ideas of things that have already been created (http://atypicaljoe.com/index.php/site/comments/jobs_picasso_quote_great_artists_steal/) and you use them as a starting off point to make your product.
2. The "look and feel" lawsuit was between Apple and Microsoft. From what I gathered from the movie and Wikipedia, Apply sued Microsoft because they felt like they were copying their idea of the GUI when Microsoft came out with the Windows 2.0 and 3.0 operating systems. Apple ended up losing. The court ruled that Apple couldn't get "patent like protection for the idea of a GUI"(wikipedia.com).
3. I'm not really sure how this quote corresponds to the "look and feel" lawsuit. I could understand that Jobs felt as Microsoft was stealing his ideas, but then he would be calling them "great" and from the movie, I gather that he doesn't think they are great. I think that neither companies copied or stole from one another. They just built upon and bettered existing ideas. If people don't create things and then people elaborate on those creations how would we make anything to begin with?
4. here is a pie chart of the different market shares for operating systems.
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