I think for the Jobs and Wozniak story, the fact that Wozniak was the engineer and actually made Apple’s computers work, while Jobs was the marketing and appearance guy, but it’s Wozniak who got kicked out of the company and barely remembered by Apple fans, says a lot about the priorities of capitalism.
It happens everywhere, like fashion brands that never speak about the people who actually make the cloths, and people who forget that Bill Gates literally stole DOS, or people who praise movie directors a lot and forget that in the credits of their own movie there are other 4 writers and 2 editors.
I really like Woz, he is still a good guy to this day.
Gates had a meeting with IBM promising a new OS. The thing is, they had nothing. So they came to a guy who was developing the original DOS, although it was rough and not finished. Bought the OS from his for I think 42000 dollars and later came back to IBM to show it to their executives and made a multi million dollar licensing deal with them and renamed it to MSDOS.
Yeah, bill gates literally stole DOS.
Watch a movie called Pirates of Silicon Valley, its a movie about how both gates and jobs started MS and Apple. There is a wonderful scene that shows what I just told you. The movie is really good.
This happens all over capitalism. One similar thing that comes to mind is how Ray Croc basically ruined the McDonald brothers with his tactics to force the sale of their fledgling company, McDonald’s, to him.
At the first investments round Steves literally sold company to their investor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Markkula. So after this it is not something surprising that Woz was kicked out.
I think for the Jobs and Wozniak story, the fact that Wozniak was the engineer and actually made Apple’s computers work, while Jobs was the marketing and appearance guy, but it’s Wozniak who got kicked out of the company and barely remembered by Apple fans, says a lot about the priorities of capitalism.
It happens everywhere, like fashion brands that never speak about the people who actually make the cloths, and people who forget that Bill Gates literally stole DOS, or people who praise movie directors a lot and forget that in the credits of their own movie there are other 4 writers and 2 editors.
I really like Woz, he is still a good guy to this day.
wait what, really?
Gates had a meeting with IBM promising a new OS. The thing is, they had nothing. So they came to a guy who was developing the original DOS, although it was rough and not finished. Bought the OS from his for I think 42000 dollars and later came back to IBM to show it to their executives and made a multi million dollar licensing deal with them and renamed it to MSDOS.
Yeah, bill gates literally stole DOS.
Watch a movie called Pirates of Silicon Valley, its a movie about how both gates and jobs started MS and Apple. There is a wonderful scene that shows what I just told you. The movie is really good.
This happens all over capitalism. One similar thing that comes to mind is how Ray Croc basically ruined the McDonald brothers with his tactics to force the sale of their fledgling company, McDonald’s, to him.
I think they were referring to CP/M which DOS is heavily based off of.
At the first investments round Steves literally sold company to their investor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Markkula. So after this it is not something surprising that Woz was kicked out.