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To: Swordmaker
You should see what his wife is writing about him. Pardon me if I believe her over you.

As for Steve Jobs making Woz a multi-billionaire, nothing could be farther from the truth. Woz left Apple in 1985, publicly stating that the company had been going in the wrong direction since 1980. When he left, he sold off his Apple stock. Woz is worth approx. $100 million. He's not hurting by any means but he's no billionaire. To this day, he gets $120,000/year from Apple in royalties.

Any multi-millionaire that would deny his own daughter and pay the mother less than $500/month (especially in California) is a scumbag, end of story.

11 posted on 10/06/2015 9:37:44 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Death before disco.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
You should see what his wife is writing about him. Pardon me if I believe her over you.

Frankly, you don't know what you're talking about. Steve Jobs' wife, Lauren Powell Jobs, is perfectly happy with how he treated her.

The woman who wrote that screed was Chrisann Brennan, a girlfriend he had back in the mid-1970s, with whom he had a daughter, to whom Jobs was never married, repeating old news, from forty years ago. Your claim she was his "wife" shows the level of your knowledge about this.

Jobs reconciled with his daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, before he left Apple for the first time, accepted his responsibility, and she became a top executive at Apple.

The patents that Woz held and would likely receive any royalties from Apple for have probably long since expired. There may be some copyrights, but Woz left before Apple learned to copyright everything, and then it's copyrighted in the company name. Had Woz kept his share of Apple, he'd be worth billions. His claims of Apple going the wrong direction has been proved wrong. . . He advocated sticking with a command line interface and the Apple II 6502-6510 family of processors. Not a good recommendation at all. He certainly is no businessman.

12 posted on 10/06/2015 11:58:00 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Damn auto correct. . . Lauren = Laurene.


13 posted on 10/07/2015 12:00:15 AM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Did you not read the second paragraph of the article? Mr. Jobs’s allies, led by his widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, say the film “Steve Jobs,” and other recent depictions, play down his accomplishments and paint Mr. Jobs as cruel and inhumane. Ms. Jobs repeatedly tried to kill the film, according to people familiar with the conversations. She lobbied, among others, Sony Pictures Entertainment, which developed the script but passed on the movie for financial reasons, and Comcast Corp. ’s Universal Pictures, which is releasing the $33.5 million production on Friday.
14 posted on 10/07/2015 12:03:11 AM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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