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Subject: Re: Steve Jobs versus his child
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Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 10:10:04 EDT
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> Any comments on the Steve Jobs fiasco?  Personally, I'm rooting for
> Jobs.  If Apple has become a big dumb company, its good employees
> should be ENCOURAGED to go off and form startup(s), where they can do
> good things for society instead of battling petty departmental
> politics.  In recent Apple moves (firing Jobs, hassling him afterward)
> bigness and dumbness are certainly evident.
> 

In the category of terminal bigness, dumbness, and arrogance:  Jobs'
enthusiasm for closed architecture, and his insistence that the only
developers Apple would give the time of day to were the big ones
(Microsoft, Lotus, etc.), takes a bigger cake than anything done by
the surviving Apple management.

According to John Sculley, the man who tossed Jobs, the next generation
of Apple machines will have an open architecture, and Apple will be
immediately working to improve its relations with, and support for,
third party developers.  Sounds good to me.


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