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Were the quotes offensive, or was it just a case of someone having a stick up their behind?

• JKCalhoun 4y ago
  Yeah, I suppose the latter. Apple was super-cautious (even then) about copyright violation (even though it was clearly outside copyright). I was too big for my britches. “We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.” (Maybe I should add that Apple was sort of circling the drain about this time. I wondered if it was the last OS we would ship and there was a kind of sadness if that were the case. Somehow the line resonated with me at the time — I felt we were a little like "drowners" (that would probably be more of a Suede reference).)
  • _zzaw 4y ago
    For whatever it's worth, people like you are why I stuck with Apple even when they were headed for bankruptcy. Quirky, human stuff like the crayon picker (which I remember a lot of people loved; the weardown effect especially) and easter eggs (which I spent much of my childhood hunting for in ResEdit) really defined the Mac experience for me at that point. It was one of the few platforms I can think of that actually had a sense of character. I've been wondering this for 25 years: how did you generate the crayons? They were pretty realistic.
• aardvark179 4y ago
  The T. S. Elliot estate is notoriously litigious, so I can definitely understand the oh shit moment.