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Jean-Louis Gassée is also the founder of Be Inc, the company which created BeOS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Gass%C3%A9e https://en.wikipedia.org/

• danso 11y ago
  When I first saw Mr. Gassée's name in the byline, I immediately recognized him as being the Apple exec behind this quip about Steve Jobs, according to Andy Hertzfeld: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Handicapped.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story... > Whenever you saw a big Mercedes parked in a handicapped space, you could be sure that it was Steve's car (actually, it was hard to be sure otherwise, since he also had a habit of removing his license plates). This sometimes caused him trouble, since unknown parties would occasionally retaliate by scratching the car with their keys. > Anyway, the story is that one day Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassee, who had recently transferred to Cupertino from Paris, had just parked his car and was walking toward the entrance of the main office at Apple when Steve buzzed by him in his silver Mercedes and pulled into the handicapped space near the front of the building. As Steve walked brusquely past him, Jean-Louis was heard to declare, to no one in particular - "Oh, I never realized that those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped...".