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[Rick Moen]

begin  Peter A. Peterson II quotation:

> This is totally tangental (and I imagine Deirdre has some thoughts on 
> this topic,) but the other thing that's been bugging me lately is how 
> Steve Jobs is not the cuddly, Ben & Jerry's style executive he used to 
> be.

He never was, nor was Apple management _ever_ a bunch of free-thinking 
artistic non-conformists.  It's all marketing.  Jobs was _always_ a
con-artist, lying asshole, all the way back to the Apple II days -- and
Apple Computer company policy has always been Orwellian.

> It's like, Microsoft tries to play everyone for the fool. Apple
> catches everyone that's either too hip or too whatever to fall for
> M$'s shtick.

Quite.  Read what Neal Stephenson has to say on the subject, in "In the
Begining Was the Command Line".

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