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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
As told by Nolan Bushnell, in their early days, Jobs was once offered a project for Atari. He told Wozniak to do it and that they would split the money. Wozniak did all the work and Jobs was paid $5000. He lied to Wozniak and said the payment was only $700 so Wozniak recieved $350 for doing all the work and Jobs pocketed $4650 without telling his friend.
Wozniak has been asked about this in interviews about this and said that the past is behind them and they are friends and did dumb things when they are young. Yes it's chump change but I just see this as an indication of Job's real character and have never liked his personality.
Hey, I'm free to hate the guy as much as some people hate other successful businessmen/politicians/what have you. I just don't see him as a hero or anyone to look up to or to celebrated in adoring documentaries. You are free to do so if you want to and it makes you happy inside. It's like how millions might love Michael Jackson but others will only think of him a pedophile whether there is truth to that or not.
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Ah, I forgot about that Atari thing. I think they were teens when that happened, not that it really excuses the behavior, but it does sound like something a teenager would do when it comes to what was a large sum of money for them.
Mostly I’m glad that Jobs is a driven, egotistical, perfectionist control freak, so I don’t have to be
I get products that fit my usage requirements and general aesthetic in hardware and software design, someone else gets to take the rap for the personality flaws that assist in bringing those products to market.
Same could be said for MS - Bill Gates, through his monopolistic practices, helped deliver a level of homogeneity that makes delivering business solutions pretty easy. Since it’s all MS product for the most part, it works together pretty well. Massive hardware and vendor support occurs because its now the de facto standard.
I definitely don’t think I’d get along with Jobs, but I don’t really have that strong a personal opinion about him one way or the other.