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Early Apple Employees Talk Memories of Steve Jobs, Thoughts On New Movie

Nerval's Lobster writes "Daniel Kottke and Bill Fernandez had front-row seats to the birth of the personal computing industry, as well as the most valuable technology company in the world. Both served as employees of Apple Computer in its earliest days: Kottke working with the hardware, Fernandez developing the user interfaces. Both have some strong opinions about the new feature film Jobs, which dramatizes the personal and professional escapades of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and his more technically inclined partner, Steve Wozniak. Kottke consulted on early versions of the script, attended the movie's premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in February, and is currently planning to see it again shortly after its release on August 16. Fernandez, on the other hand, hasn't seen it and doesn't intend to, because he considers it a work of fiction and thinks it will upset him. In this lengthy interview with Slashdot, both attempted to distinguish the facts and longstanding geek legends from the instances of pure creative license exercised by the filmmakers."

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  1. Re:Funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do you even work in the healthcare industry, 'tard? Yeah, thought not. His money had *everything* to do with his transplant. He was not a good candidate for transplant because he was waiting out a death sentence. They wasted time, money and organs on him, no matter how much you love his shiny products.