----- Original Message ----- From: "Angelus Novus" <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com>
"Just because Jobs and his company make the cutting edge technological status symbols of the 21st century there is no reason they can’t resemble the mill owners of 19th century Manchester."
Full article: http://socialistresistance.org/2457/apples-rotten-core -------------------
Of course. For people working at Apple, the cool guy was not Jobs, it was Wozniak.
After the dot com collapse of 2001, a lot of very skilled engineers who had struck out on their own returned to Apple for the secure paycheck. What they tell me is that it's now a corporation like any other. I blieve them.
No doubt founded on some awesome talent and some great ideas, but perhaps now, ripe for the picking, as HP is learning.
Joanna