I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.

I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

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.

I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.

We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.

A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.