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> I consider him an expert. What do you make of this Wozniak's comments [1]: "It's so awful and atrocious," said Wozniak, who said he got access to a cop

> I consider him an expert. What do you make of this Wozniak's comments [1]: "It's so awful and atrocious," said Wozniak, who said he got access to a copy of the movie's script. "Unlike the way Steve and I really dealt with each other. "I didn't want to have much to do with that movie." [1] http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/30/tech/innovation/wozniak-jobs-movie/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5 http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/30/tech/innovation/wozniak-jobs-m... news.yc discussion of [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5157396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5157396

tvon 13y ago
Woz is not commenting on the script, not on Ashton Kutcher.
- tvon 13y ago
  (Note this should have been "Woz is commenting on the script, not on Ashton Kutcher.")
Oculus 13y ago
I'd imagine (haven't seen the movie yet) that Wozniak has a problem with the way they potrayed him in the movie. It's not to far out there that the movie would try to showcase him as a quite, naive, computer guy. Hollywood tends to always do that when portraying hackers.
Kiro 13y ago
Has anyone ever approved of a portrait of themselves?
- mietek 13y ago
  Yes. More to the point, Woz has approved of the way people were portrayed in "Pirates of Silicon Valley", including himself. "It's funny, but even with all the things that aren't said outright, a great number of people, like yourself, saw a lot of things in that movie that are totally true. The personalities were very accurately portrayed." "The personalities and incidents are accurate in the sense that they all occured but they are often with the wrong parties (Bill Fernandez, Apple employee #4, was with me and the computer that burned up in 1970) and at the wrong dates (when John Sculley joined, he had to redirect attention from the Apple III, not the Mac, to the Apple ][ ) and places (Homebrew Computer Club was at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)." http://www.woz.org/taxonomy/term/2 http://www.woz.org/taxonomy/term/2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_Silicon_Valley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_Silicon_Valley

tvon 13y ago

Woz is not commenting on the script, not on Ashton Kutcher.

tvon 13y ago
(Note this should have been "Woz is commenting on the script, not on Ashton Kutcher.")

Oculus 13y ago

I'd imagine (haven't seen the movie yet) that Wozniak has a problem with the way they potrayed him in the movie. It's not to far out there that the movie would try to showcase him as a quite, naive, computer guy. Hollywood tends to always do that when portraying hackers.

Kiro 13y ago

Has anyone ever approved of a portrait of themselves?

mietek 13y ago
Yes. More to the point, Woz has approved of the way people were portrayed in "Pirates of Silicon Valley", including himself. "It's funny, but even with all the things that aren't said outright, a great number of people, like yourself, saw a lot of things in that movie that are totally true. The personalities were very accurately portrayed." "The personalities and incidents are accurate in the sense that they all occured but they are often with the wrong parties (Bill Fernandez, Apple employee #4, was with me and the computer that burned up in 1970) and at the wrong dates (when John Sculley joined, he had to redirect attention from the Apple III, not the Mac, to the Apple ][ ) and places (Homebrew Computer Club was at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)." http://www.woz.org/taxonomy/term/2 http://www.woz.org/taxonomy/term/2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_Silicon_Valley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_Silicon_Valley