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Woz, Others Ask Apple To Go Easy On Tiger Leak

Posted by timothy on from the pr-opportunity-if-ever-one-was dept.

tabkey12 writes "Drunkenbatman posts this impressive article with a pointed quote from Apple co-creator Steve Wozniak and 24 others from all parts of the Apple Software world, criticising Apple's stance against a 23-year-old pre-med student, desicanuk, who distributed a pre-release Tiger build over a popular Mac Bittorrent site. There's also an interview with desicanuk on drunkenbatman's site. (Original Slashdot article here.)"

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  1. Credibility by Odo · · Score: 5, Funny
    Posted by "Drunkenbatman". On "drunkenblog.com". Defending "desicanuk". Quotes people from "Delicious Monster", "DaringFireball" and "Unsanity". Submitted to "slashdot.org" by "tabkey12".

    Two questions:

    1. How do we expect to be taken seriously with pseudonyms like this?
    2. How many /.ers didn't even blink while reading the intro?
    Of course look who's talking; Odo, a fictional shapeshifter... <sigh>
    1. Re:Credibility by Stephen+Williams · · Score: 4, Funny

      Are you kidding? "Drunkenbatman" will look awesome on the guy's future Pulitzer Prize.

      -Stephen

    2. Re:Credibility by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
      2. How many /.ers didn't even blink while reading the intro?


      What? You mean we're supposed to read the whole thing?
  2. The question remains: by earthbound+kid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who is DrunkenBatman?

    Some have speculated that DrunkenBatman is DrunkenBruceWayne, a theory I too once believed. However, after I publicly aired my suspicions, he and I were kidnapped by the DrunkenPenguin then saved by DrunkenBatman. So I've seen DrunkenBruceWayne and DrunkenBatman, together. ...However, I should note, where was DrunkenRobin during all this? Just hanging around the DrunkenBatcave? We can only drunkenly speculate, I guess.

  3. Re:Woz is too much of an idealist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn, I wish I could end up in the kind of soup that Jobs ended up in with NeXT. A $400 Million buy-out which led to a boardroom coup opportunity in which he regained control of his old multi-billion-dollar company!

    Please Lord, let me make a few mistakes like that!

  4. Re:Woz is too much of an idealist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    To us ACs, anyone with enough cash to buy a chicken sandwich for lunch is a billionaire.

  5. Re: Federated Usable... by sczimme · · Score: 3, Funny


    Not every business needs to have a respectable name like "Federated Usable Computational Devices, Inc."

    So the company would basically be FUCD?

    :-)

    --
    I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.