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- Ireland, on 12/23/2007, -4/+117The things about Fake Steve is can never tell when he's not being fake.
- inactive, on 12/23/2007, -4/+63Come on, this is the same guy that had U2's Bono "take over" his blog for four days. If you really believe this, I've got several thousand copies of Duke Nukem Forever that I'd like to sell you. Fake Steve has been mocking the Think Secret settlement and now he's putting his funny little personal spin on the story. In other words, don't believe the hype!
Of course, this won't stop the Apple haters from declaring how evil Apple is for shutting down free speech by paying bloggers obscene amounts of cash to prevent them from disclosing secrets protected under NDAs. But oh well, whatever. - EvilAnimator, on 12/23/2007, -7/+57It's just a joke, dumdums.
- streak, on 12/23/2007, -35/+75Don't be taken by this professional fraudster. FSJ makes money hand over fist, with the Forbes legal team to back him since he was "outed" and his employer (Forbes) decided to take him under its wing. This is just another web glob to attract your ad clicks.
- isunktheship, on 12/23/2007, -2/+33What would be ironic is if Apple sued him for saying they were suing him.
- haiduz, on 12/23/2007, -13/+37all the poeple in the cult of mac take note: Apple is just as evil as any other corporation. In this instance, much more evil.
- Wesside, on 12/23/2007, -5/+28people click ads still? I don't even ever see any..
- Zap2, on 12/23/2007, -1/+22its a joke!
- HimThatSpeaks, on 12/23/2007, -2/+20Next in line, fake Santa sued by clandestine mysterious corporate entity from North Pole.
- skeen07, on 12/23/2007, -1/+18How obligatory.
- whatthefu, on 12/23/2007, -5/+20You don't have much of a sense of humor I presume?
- wellyuk, on 12/23/2007, -1/+15shut the ***** up you tosser
- isunktheship, on 12/23/2007, -0/+13Do you accept paypal?
- ZenMojo, on 12/23/2007, -0/+13Fake Steve will have the finest fake legal team my fake dollars can buy! And my fake unending support!
- danieleran, on 12/23/2007, -4/+17As someone who has interacted with Dan Lyons outside of his FSJ persona, I can attest to the fact that he is a bit of a disingenuous douche. He knows how to say nice things when he needs something, but he'll misrepresent things you say, and straight up lie about his documented past.
He's published some pretty heinous FUD about Linux while representing SCO, and he entertains Mac readers in his FSJ blog while writing up complete ***** about Apple as himself in Forbes.
Whether Apple sent him a C&D or not, his schtick is old and needs to be retired. Take a hint from Sacha Cohen's Borat and put FSJ to sleep before we have to ask. - masterc, on 12/23/2007, -2/+12You obviously cared enough to comment.
- saisumimen, on 12/23/2007, -0/+9The Vatican?
- saucedmike, on 12/23/2007, -2/+11Fair use
not "parody rights" - inactive, on 12/23/2007, -5/+14People still care about this dude?
- angusm, on 12/23/2007, -9/+17Attack is the best defense. He should incorporate a Fake Apple, and set his own lawyer to sue the real Steve Jobs for being a fake Fake Steve Jobs and disclosing Fake Apple trade secrets every time he gives a keynote.
I thought Real Steve Jobs was a big fan of Fake Steve Jobs - couldn't he have settled this with a friendly word, rather than bringing out the legal big guns? - inactive, on 12/23/2007, -1/+9So nice of you to come all the way here just to tell us you'd rather be somewhere else.
- ChrisWalkr, on 12/23/2007, -0/+7Take a wiiiild guess.
- knightboat, on 12/23/2007, -2/+9You're dumb.
- rgury, on 12/23/2007, -2/+9very interesting comment from the article:
"OK seriously? Take the offer. Now. It only gets worse.
Go read my current bio. See how, like, I'm a "consultant" now, but before my Steve Jobs book came out I was this business journalist with a contributing editor gig at Vanity Fair and a column at GQ and a Fortune correspondent gig? Ya, that's all over now. You think it was by choice?
The worst was Fortune, I thought they'd really back me, used to tell me they believed in hardhitting take no prisoners no fear journalism blah blah blah. After the book? Said I should act more like Loomis. Or Schlender. Or Huey. If I wasn't close enough to CEOs to get a jet ride or share a bottle of scotch or ghostwrite the annual report or pen a fawning "autobiography" for three times my annual salary, I probably wasn't doing anything right, so maybe I should consider other opportunities etc.
Now go back to the bio. The one on my website. Now, I used to mention my wife and how I lived in Atlanta. Now it says I live in San Francisco and no mention of family. Well, that's not by accident either. What happened to my family? Still alive? Still connected to me? Where do they live? Where do I live? I mean, REALLY live? Are we still together? Divorced? Separated?
Well, my friend, let's just say my little Steve Jobs book confrontation experience made me, uh, shall we say, a little paranoid about my personal private family life information. You couldn't get me to answer any of those family questions I just asked with jumper cables and a car battery and me tied down and naked covered in cold water (I've actually practiced that a few times with some ex SAS dudes at this training program they run in Namibia -- I'll send the deets on email).
Anyway, Mr Lives In Boston With His Wife and Two Kids And Everyone Who Read His Book Including Apple Security Knows It, ahem, I tried to be a hero and let me tell you, it's just not worth it. The journalism free expression change the world be happy and creative thing is already over. Apple will crush that, it's what they do, professionally, they have a whole staff to do it. Programmers make the tools to enable this free creative expression, Katie Cotton and her PR team join with Apple legal to crush customers who actually pull it off.
The only question is whether you take the easy way out of the hard way out, and as someone who opted for the latter let me assure you the pain has not even begun yet." - NSResponder, on 12/23/2007, -4/+10It's a hoax, guys. He had me fooled, since he broke character and really did sound scared, so I sent an email to Steve Jobs about it. I got a reply just now. He said, and I quote it verbatim:
"I think this is a joke.
Steve"
Bury this story, it's inaccurate.
-jcr - inactive, on 12/23/2007, -0/+6Now you're thinking with portals!
- Jugalator, on 12/23/2007, -0/+5Proof: http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/12/im-feeling-l ...
Steve actually replied in person. :-) - DaysInTheDark, on 12/23/2007, -0/+5All of this proves Dan Lyon's opinion of journalistic blogging...not only are people believing what they read in a blog without any kind of fact checking, they're believing a ***** FAKE JOKE SATIRICAL BLOG THAT IS OBVIOUSLY SPOOFING WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO THINK SECRET.
what the....? i'm speechless. - fhornplayer, on 12/23/2007, -1/+6Comeback of the month, right there.
- antitab, on 12/23/2007, -1/+6Anyone taking this with the least bit of seriousness ought to read the tongue-in-cheek post he made about the TS thing ten days prior:
"Great news, scumbag bloggers. Following their decisive Think Secret victory over Apple, the EFF legal staff (photo) is already working on a worldwide program aimed at helping other bloggers obtain similar cash-for-silence settlements. "Operation Freedom," as they're calling it, will extend far beyond Apple. Mini-Microsoft? For a hundred grand he goes dark. Scoble? Surely someone would pay him to never write another word about anything. Daily Kos? Already for sale; you just need to outbid the Democrats. Valleywag? Take up a collection in the Valley and they're gone. All those bloggers in Pakistan, and Iran, and North Korea, and China? You've built valuable assets, and now, thanks to some powerless government agencies who will be willing to suffer humiliating losses at the hands of your EFF-appointed legal team, you'll have a way to monetize those assets and retire in comfort. It's a win-win all around."
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/12/eff-lawyers- ...
Suddenly, ten days later, Apple is offering him a cash settlement to take down his blog, with scare-tactics beyond even SCO? Uh-huh. K. - stevejobs, on 12/23/2007, -0/+5I hate fakes
- Pie4Weebl, on 12/23/2007, -2/+6Thanks for supporting free speech. After all, if you don't like hearing something it shouldn't exist.
- mrsteveman1, on 12/23/2007, -3/+7No, that would just be extremely stupid.
Ironic would be if they spent thousands on lawyers, flashed their brand around to get attention for the lawsuit, then did nothing. - Notluf, on 12/23/2007, -0/+4Starting to sound like a bunch of FUD to me by FSJ. Might be Apple lawyers run amok, but it could just be a last ditch effort at Fake Steve Jobs for some publicity before his names disappears.
- NSResponder, on 12/23/2007, -2/+6He's being fake this time, too.
-jcr - rhesuspieces00, on 12/23/2007, -1/+5If its boring, then why do you read it? And why would you care whether it continues to exist.
I'm digging you down for being a smug *****. - streak, on 12/23/2007, -2/+6Yeah, I always have trouble discerning video games from reality, too.
- streak, on 12/23/2007, -0/+3Not when it's FAKE.
- inactive, on 12/23/2007, -2/+5Who take FSJ seriously? The last time I checked everybody knew that he was fake and who he really is in the RealWorld™.
- isunktheship, on 12/23/2007, -1/+4They'll sick Leopard on you!
- isunktheship, on 12/23/2007, -1/+4You see the joke was that "Leopard" is a Mac OS, as well as a vicious animal, from the feline family. So Apple could sick their software on you, or maybe it will be a scary cat.
- Lionhart, on 12/23/2007, -1/+4An apparently successful publicity stunt!
- GreenAlien, on 12/23/2007, -0/+3How do you know this. He didnt publish the PDF did he?
- najdorf, on 12/23/2007, -3/+6I'm still not sure if this is real (I'm not a reader of the blog). I assume it's not since:
1) Apple likes the fake Steve (he even put mentioned him in one of it's keynotes if I remember).
2) Apple is not so stupid not know this would be a suicide.
3) if he was really scared ***** as he sais he would think better of posting all the details of appleìs threats
Still pretty risky move from the fake steve, 90% of the readers think it's true from the comments posted on his blog, he will have to post a disclaimer soon before hell breaks loose. - richardhenry, on 12/23/2007, -0/+2Everyone? Gullible has been removed from the Leopard dictionary.
- atdakore, on 12/23/2007, -0/+2are you joking? because fsj was
- Jugalator, on 12/23/2007, -0/+2This story was indeed a fake: http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/12/im-feeling-l ...
- BenBenMan, on 12/23/2007, -0/+2Fake Apple .... Fapple?
- vwvan, on 12/23/2007, -0/+2satire rules. mad magazine. now this. the end is near!
- ChrisWalkr, on 12/23/2007, -0/+2Nope I didnt.
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