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Apple Lawyering Up On "Fake Steve Jobs"

Posted by kdawson on from the end-of-the-blog-as-we-know-it dept.

An anonymous reader sends us to The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs for a developing situation. Daniel Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs, made a post earlier today revealing that Apple was offering him some money (in the wake of the ThinkSecret shutdown) to close down his blog. He said he was interested in taking it. A few hours later, Lyons posted again revealing that Apple's lawyers had contacted him angrily, saying the details of the deal were supposed to remain private. Fake Steve replied 'we either deal out in the open, completely transparently, or we don't deal.' A third post gives details of Apple's lawyers' next response, going totally medieval on him. Since then the situation has calmed down a bit.

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  1. Guys... It's probably a joke. by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Informative
    Read the comments on the "I'm feeling a bit better" page.

    One from the real Steve Jobs:

    Joel said...

            RSJ just responded to my email, saying, "I think this is a joke."

            I'm a bit annoyed by this, since I was defending you, and now look something of a fool. And another who had mailed the same:

    Diogenes said...
    I wrote a bit of an inflammatory email to sjobs@apple.com, and actually got a response.
    Here is the text of the conversation (read bottom to top, of course) ...

    I think this is all a joke. And I think you fell for it.
    Steve

    On Dec 22, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Gary Baldwin wrote:
    I'm not sure who I've reached here, but in the interest of finishing what you start, this is what I'm referring to:
    http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/12/thanks-for-your-support.html

    On Dec 22, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Steve Jobs wrote:
    What, praytell, are you talking about?

    On Dec 22, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Gary Baldwin wrote:
    I'm an admitted Apple fanboy, but I can't say I admire this. I would have thought you all would have appreciated the affectionate satire rather than being unaccountable assholes.
    Gary Baldwin The amazing part to me here is that Steve Jobs is replying to mails in person. With a short delay, at a Christmas-y time like December 22nd...
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  2. Re:It's also possible that fake Steve is being... by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Informative

    It is.

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