I, Woz

theodp writes "In a Q&A session, Steve Wozniak discusses his forthcoming autobiography, how HP not only passed on his Apple design but also nixed his pleas to work on an HP computer, and the perks of being an Apple co-founder - free 65W AC adapters!"

Re:A not An

[The Grassy Knoll]

Actually, it's "An aitch-pee computer", not "An haitch-pee computer". See the wikipedia [wikipedia.org]. What are they teaching in schools nowadays? .

Re:I disagree

[jocknerd]

Proof that Steve Jobs owned Pixar:
http://news.com.com/Pixar+goes+to+Hollywood/2009-1 026_3-6030125.html [com.com]

Smoke that!

Re:friends

[elrous0]

Obviously you guys have never heard the story of how Steve Job screwed Woz over in the infamous Atari deal back in the early days (Woz himself tell the story on this Q&A page [woz.org]).

Woz was a good guy, the real deal. Jobs was a shark, focused mostly on how he could exploit people like Woz to make money.

-Eric

repeat

[mgabrys_sf]

That's a reprint of an interview done by the San Jose Mercury News over 14 days ago.

Re:Woz and Jobs

[Anonymous Coward]

I would argue that the concept of Free Software made more impact in the computing world than the Apple I & II.

No way in hell.

It's 2006, and Free Software(tm) still has done essentially nothing to change the average person's life. No one who isn't a dyed-in-the-wool technophile has even heard of it, and even fewer would be affected if it fell of the face of the planet. Sure, those $59 Linksys routers running Linux would cost $159 instead, but that's about it.

Only with the inroads made by Firefox are we starting to see a social impact being made by part of the Free Software movement... and that's only happening because Microsoft fumbled the ball on IE.

Nobody owes their life to fucking Emacs. The Apple II, on the other hand, stole fire from the gods. By treating a computer as a consumer-level device, it changed everything and it changed everyone.

It changed your path too, even if you don't acknowledge it.