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Steve Jobs Movie Clip Historically Inaccurate, Says Woz
Yesterday saw the release of a clip from the upcoming movie jOBS, a biopic about the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The clip shows Jobs, played by Ashton Kutcher, having a conversation with Steve Wozniak, played by Josh Gad, about how influential an operating system for a personal computer would be. The real Steve Wozniak commented on the clip, saying the situation it portrayed was "totally wrong." He said, "Personalities and where the ideas of computers affecting society did not come from Jobs. They inspired me and were widely spoken at the Homebrew Computer Club. Steve came back from Oregon and came to a club meeting and didn't start talking about this great social impact. His idea was to make a $20 PC board and sell it for $40 to help people at the club build the computer I'd given away. Steve came from selling surplus parts at HalTed he always saw a way to make a quick buck off my designs (this was the 5th time). The lofty talk came much further down the line." Wozniak was quick to add that he isn't making any judgment on the quality of the movie based on a single, 1-minute clip, and that the rest of the movie may or may not be more accurate. He also says he hopes it's entertaining.
Script writer must be an iPhone zealot.
Woz was a loser. Relatively speaking. Engineers just like him because he's one of their own.
The Raspberry Pi is being marketed by companies like Farnell and RS Components. They are profit making companies. If you think they aren't making a profit on this, I've got a bridge to sell you.
The only difference is that you like the guys behind the Raspberry Pi and you hate SJ/Apple.
There is nothing wrong with making a product that people want and making a profit on selling it.
Irrelevant. They might be making a profit, but it's still cheaper than you could make it yourself due to the economies of scale.
1) You're only guessing that wasn't the case with the Apple I.
2) Since when was that the distinction between good and evil product development anyway? You guys are insane.
Because Woz is nothing more now than a bitchy old man who thinks the world shafted him by not giving him the glorification that Steve Jobs got.
There will never be a movie like this that pleases Woz any more than there will ever be a software license other than GPL that RMS thinks isn't evil.
Woz is the kind of person who watches StarWars or Stargate then tells you it sucks and picks it apart for scientific inaccuracies. There is no point in bothering to attempt to please him.
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You need to learn the difference between a movie that is a Documentary (which this isn't) and a work of Fiction (which this is).
The problem is yours if you can't distinguish between the two.
The funny part is that you're getting all uppity about how OTHER people might have the problem you're having.
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