I Got Bitten By The Free Software

I Left Apple In April Of 1984, Pretty Soon After The Introduction Of The Mac.

Apple Was Our Benefactor At Starting General Magic, But About A Year Later Decided They Would Rather Be General Magic And Tried To Make Us Blink Out Of Existence... Which We Eventually Did, But It Took A Few Years.

Scotty Heard That I Was Thinking About Quitting Apple Because Of His Actions, So He Called Me Into His Office And Asked What It Would Take For Me To Stay? I Said, Maybe If I Could Work On The Mac Project, Which Steve Had Just Taken Over From Jef Raskin.

I Left General Magic In 1996 To Become An Internet Hobbyist - Got A T-1 Line To My House. At One Point I Had All Four Food Banks Of The Bay Area Hosted From This House Here.

I'm The Kind Of Developer Who Likes To Throw Lightning Rods Around. To Make A Great Program There's Got To Be At Least One Person At The Center Who Is Breathing Life Into It. In A Ferocious Way.