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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (322891)	1/25/2007 3:31:34 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574595

"Steve Jobs is brilliant.....he's in a class all his own." I am guessing you never watched "Pirates in The Valley"? The other Steve, The Woz, deserves more credit. We are engineers. We hide in the shadows. We have our needs, but the spotlight isn't one of them. We need, we want, to develop products of our dreams. Now sometimes our dreams don't resonate, like the Apple III. Some times they do, like the Mac. Often we have to prostitute ourselves to incarnate our dreams. But that doesn't mean we are less artists than Picasso. Often we are more. True, the past couple of decades means we can make a shot at the golden ring. That isn't always true, even now. But that isn't the point. We are driven to create. Yeah, I know that popular fiction denies that part, but engineers making good money is a recent thing. Engineers used to be lower to mid middle class. Except for a few, they didn't translate their passion for money. And yet, they were satisfied. Because they were allowed to create. Jobs is a salesman. He knows engineers well enough to coopt their dreams. He knows he can exploit them because because they want to see their dreams reach fruition. And that is more important to them than taking credit or even getting stock options.