[Info-vax] Fwd: Apple says company co-founder Steve Jobs has died

[MG]

(Not sure why, but I somehow missed this excellent post.)

On 8-10-2011 15:37, Neil Rieck wrote:
> Reality check: In his book "Idea Man" Paul Allen talks about an event
> where Bill Gates and Steve Balmer tried to squeeze Allen out of
> Microsoft at a time when Allen was undergoing treatments for cancer.

Maybe Allen didn't need half as much treatment as they did.

What already sickened me back in ~1994, when the PC-condemned 'small
people' (sadly I couldn't afford anything but a PC either at the
time) were too busy fawning over gimmicky new things like the "Start
menu" as BSoD virgins, how Bill Gates was excessively praised as this
exemplary figure and touted as one of America's big 'success' stories
and a "great" or even "the greatest" "entrepreneur."

I remember there were websites that exposed his conduct, like when
he was scooping through trash cans at universities.  Many of these
websites are gone now.  I guess nobody cares anymore, or dismiss it
as fables and tall tales.


> This reminded me of how badly Steve Jobs (and Apple) treated Steve
> Wozniak when "the woz" was laying in the hospital with airplane-crash-
> induced amnesia. Whats the take away? When it came to business, both
> Jobs and Gates were first class pricks.

You know, now that you mention it: it's like everyone has completely
forgotten about that.  What I found particularly shocking, though, is
how Wozniak still said a few good words for Jobs during an interview
a few days ago.  To me Wozniak is obviously the bigger man, or bigger
sport.  So, no matter what Wozniak has been through, he still had
something good to say about Jobs.


> It "appears" to me that Bill Gates has become a more humane in the
> past half decade. But if the story about "Jobs refusing to write a one
> page introduction to Wozniak's book is true" then all I can say is
> that Jobs was still a prick right up to the very end.

Now, that wasn't very nice of St. Jobs.  I didn't even know that and I
definitely second that notion.

In another post of mine I brought up historical fallacies, particularly
with regard to the falsification of history (in terms of Apple taking
credit for alleged debuts).  What in the media they also seem to omit
is Wozniak and his role in Apple.  In the 1990s people were much more
aware that Apple was just as much something of Jobs as of Wozniak.
(I interned in a graphic design and publishing company at the time,
where they had mostly Macintosh systems there, particularly for DTP.)

  - MG