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by swang720 5020 days ago
This is lazy journalism.

Will people stop posting what Steve Wozniak thinks about everything? Just because he's Steve Wozniak doesn't make him a foremost expert on everything related to technology. Does this quote add any insight or value at all?

“I don’t agree with it — very small things I don’t really call that innovative. I wish everybody would just agree to exchange all the patents and everybody can build the best forms they want to use everybody’s technologies.”

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Actually it does. The man is not claiming to be an expert on technology, however he did help co-create one of the most successful and profitable companies in history. You have an opinion, why shouldn't he?
I don't think that's the only reason he's quoted often. I think the fact that Woz continues to have very sensible opinions on a lot of things has a lot to with.
In this case, Woz was one of the two founders of Apple. So it is quite relevant.