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Re: Apple II vs Atari 800



N.N. Thayer wrote:
On Apr 14, 7:45 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:

(Note that it was Woz' vision, not Jobs', who rushed
to nail eveything shut as soon as he had the chance.)


I'd bet that, for Woz, it was as much a default way of thinking (from
the hobbyist ethos) as it was vision.  I get the sense that if someone
had approached him at the time and asked why he was releasing so much
information about a flagship product, he'd have blinked and responded
along the lines of: "Well, yeah... why wouldn't I?"

Exactly--I didn't say it was calculated.  I think it was his
image of himself as providing a foundation for the contribution
of others.

This was, BTW, the engineering ethos of HP, as well.

-michael

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