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I don't see any irony at all. The only similarity with those stories is the word "pirate".

• raganwald 14y ago
  At the time, Jobs had been pushed out of all of his operating/management roles by the professionals running the company. he latched onto Jef Raskin's Macintosh project and remade it in his own vision. He moved the entire team out of Apple's offices so that they could work without interference from the powers-that-be, who would have blocked his efforts once they realized how much his new "inexpensive" computer would compete with their existing push to sell a $10,000+ Lisa. Macintosh was very much a big "F.U." to the Apple of the day, from a remote jurisdiction where the usual rules didn't apply. PirateBay is very much a big F.U. to the IP industry of today, from a remote jurisdiction where the "rules" are applied slowly and incompletely. Like any analogy, there are hits and misses, but I see irony in a company that exists today because of someone's pirate disruption of the entrenched system sending a cease-and-desist to other disruptors. Another way to put it is that Apple isn't dancing with the one they brought to the Ball. http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Texaco_Towers.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...