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What exactly was so belligerent about Woz's response?

It seemed like a straight-forward, facts-only response to me.



Steve Jobs never claimed to be a programmer. He had bigger sources of pride. He was a technician at Atari. 'npalli' seems to be offended by Woz stating the facts. I wouldn't expect Woz to submit to the hero worship of Jobs that a lot of people seem to expect these days. That'd be like asking my ex-wife to sing my praises.


Unfortunately, straight forward and concise, when in the web medium, can sound belligerent depending on the perspective of the reader. When I'm reading someone technical like Woz I have to consciously apply a matter of fact tone to the content to avoid thinking it comes off as rude.


can sound belligerent depending on the perspective of the reader.

Ah yes, I can see how anything that wasn't utterly worshipful of Steve Jobs would sound belligerent to an Apple fanboy.


Now you came as rude and tasteless.

Nobody asked for something "utterly worshipful", and nobody sounded like a "fanboy" in this thread, and surely not the original commenter (oh, and using such words as "fanboy"? Are you fifteen years old?).

His concern was if this was an accurate portrayal or if Wozniak was resentful and downplayed some of Jobs skills.

Nobody expected Woz to say that Jobs had Bill Joy level programming skills.


Just about everything you said was incorrect.

Please, take your special brand of crazy somewhere else.




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