Al Gore Joins Apple's Board Of Directors

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Al Gore Joins Apple's Board Of Directors

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 19, 2003 @10:55AM from the thanks-al-thanks-a-lot dept.

zzxc writes "News.com.com reports that Al Gore has been chosen to be on Apple's board of directors. Apple has a press release with more information. According to the press release, 'Al brings an incredible wealth of knowledge and wisdom to Apple from having helped run the largest organization in the world--the United States government' and 'He has remained an active leader in technology--launching a public/private effort to wire every classroom and library in America to the Internet.' The inventor of the internet should be a valuable asset to Apple."

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I have to go hear him lecture next week by webster1 · 2003-03-19 11:03 · Score: 4, Interesting

Gore is going to be lecturing my class next week at Middle Tenn State Univ (where he has been an adjunct prof for a while...i am not proud).

Anyone have any questions you want me to ask him?

He is officially there to talk to my 'Legal Problems of the Recording Industry' class about he and his wife's censorship/labeling campaign in the mid 1980's. However, we have been told that we can "ask him anything." Tipper may be there too, but at this point we dont know.

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1. Re:I have to go hear him lecture next week by Mikey-San · 2003-03-19 11:30 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  Ask him, very specifically, about Apple's DRM stance.
  
  "You've just recently been added to Apple's board of directors. What are your feeling towards Apple's customer-friendly, honesty-based stance on Digital Rights Management?"
  
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Finally something truly interesting. by Blimey85 · 2003-03-19 11:04 · Score: 3, Interesting

I've been bored off my ass all day... until now.
Now I can't stop laughing. Apple has always though different and I think that through all of the problems they have had, they have done pretty good. Not many companies have taken on MS and lived to tell the tale. Apple has. But what is the reasoning behind hiring Al Gore?
Yes I read the bloody article and yes I know what Apple is telling us, but what is the real reasoning behind the scenes? Do they honestly think Al Gore can bring something to Apple? What does he know about computer companies, software companies, or the Apple way of doing things? Why not bring back Woz? At least Woz had an idea of what the hell is going on. Maybe this is just a gimmick though. Something crazy to get Apple in the news for a while. To make people remember they exist. Or maybe Steve really thinks Al can add to the Apple brand.

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Re:Politics by odin53 · 2003-03-19 11:11 · Score: 5, Interesting

Beats another lawyer....

These are the directors of Apple:

Bill Campbell
Chairman and former CEO
Intuit Corp.

Millard Drexler
Chairman and CEO
J. Crew

Albert Gore Jr.
Former Vice President of the United States

Steve Jobs
CEO, Apple
CEO, Pixar

Arthur D. Levinson, Ph. D.
Chairman and CEO
Genentech

Jerry York
President and CEO
Micro Warehouse

Where are the lawyers? I don't understand your statement. And what would be wrong with having lawyer on the BOD (assuming conflicts of interest don't exist)?