How the Mac was born... supposedly...

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Tue Jan 11 14:07:12 CST 2005


You were yelled at by Jobs?  Please share the tale with the rest of us.  :)

If it's any consolation, I was once "Ellison'd" at an Oracle press conference
in 2001.  My question was about the impact of open-source infrastructure and
open-source databases like MySQL, etc.  He said the question was "stupid". 
LOL, but a short time later, Oracle started a big marketing push about Linux.

--- Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com> wrote:

> 
> Computer Collector Newsletter wrote:
>
>http://news.com.com/How+the+Mac+was+born%2C+and+other+tales/2008-1082_3-552908
> >1.html?tag=nefd.lede
> 
> huh.  The world according to Andy.
> 
> Certainly one side of the story, but not the only side I suspect.
> 
> I'd be curious to hear what Steve Capps and Joanna Hoffman think of the
> book :-)
> 
> (I remember being yelled at by mr. jobs in 1985.  eeeyow.  blew my hair
> back!)
> 
> -brad
> 


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