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Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM

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388 points zdw | 4 comments | 24 Jun 25 13:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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RomanPushkin ◴[24 Jun 25 14:38 UTC] No.44366760[source]▶
It's kinda cool and shows that there are real people behind corporations. Some folks with lots of $$$ say "I build this" (Zuck often says that), stealing the credit of accomplishment from small little people. While real small little people leave the note in history - "nope, it's us who put our souls into making this happen". Of course, Steve Jobs would ban this.
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dcminter ◴[24 Jun 25 14:50 UTC] No.44366886[source]▶
You know I'm not a huge fan of Jobs, but I do think he was a lot more complicated than the pantomime villain he sometimes gets characterised as. On this particular topic he was, on the contrary, the progenitor of this:

https://www.folklore.org/Signing_Party.html

So no "of course" about it.

Note also that Microsoft had a "no easter eggs" policy starting in the early 2000s. It's not really a Jobs thing.

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1. amelius ◴[24 Jun 25 15:31 UTC] No.44367311[source]▶
Article says:

"... Steve Jobs reportedly banning them in 1997 when he returned to Apple ..."

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2. dcminter ◴[24 Jun 25 15:41 UTC] No.44367420[source]▶
Yes I know, I read it. I was responding to the parent "of course" insinuation that it was motivated by jealousy of the credit for the Mac. His established promotion of the identity of the contributors gives the lie to this view.

It was probably driven by the same kind of pragmatic business drivers as the later Microsoft ban, i.e. the perception by the market of how "serious" Apple was as a company.

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Edit: According to Gizmodo in 2012:

> He justified the credits ban as a way to avoid headhunters and other companies trying to poach Apple engineering talent. At a time when Apple was sinking rapidly, he said that it made no sense to make the life of the competition easier. He also argued that they were all responsible of the stuff they created in Cupertino. This was a complete change from the 1980s.

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3. schlauerfox ◴[24 Jun 25 17:35 UTC] No.44368658[source]▶
That makes more sense in light of what came about, a massive industry wage suppression scheme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
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4. amelius ◴[24 Jun 25 17:39 UTC] No.44368710{3}[source]▶
Are Apple employees even allowed to build a resume and keep an updated version on LinkedIn?