Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[Ole Voss <joker@on-line.de>]

> Steve Jobs ripped off other people's ideas even more than Bill Gates.
> At lease Gates wrote his own code for a time -- Jobs milked the II,
> Wozniak's creation.  Although he claims to be the father of Macintosh,
> he just oversaw others who designed it.
>

Being the 'father' of a project is not merely being the inventor or dedicated
coder. There's a lot more to it, and marketing a product is certainly not
something WOZ would have done.Techfreaks aren't into that sort of stuff: shake
hands, throwem a phoney smile... etc.
Jobs was just there and he did the job. It was certainly not perfect, but
impressive all he same.




> Jobs no longer feels close to the Macintosh since the company
> betrayed him.  I would not be surprised when he moves on to
> "the next big thing" and drops the Mac.  For the time being, he is
> doing a good job of milking it for all it is worth.  Apple's financial
> situation has been improving.

  "the NEXT big thing" hehehe.