[bravoyankee]

This has been on HN a bunch of times already. News is supposed to be new, correct?

[angersock]

This story was news to me, and I haven't seen it in a couple of years here.

The only part here not news is Steve Jobs/Apple acting like jackasses--the particulars of the story are interesting.

[muyuu]

Same here, and it's one of the most interesting pieces I've read in a while.

[sigzero]

> This story was news to me, and I haven't seen it in a couple of years here.

Which is it?

[znowi]

Interestingly, he was also a close mentor to Larry Page and Sergey Brin :)

[msvan]

If it gets to the frontpage, it's because it was upvoted by people who hadn't seen it before. If you've already seen it, you don't need to click it.

[epo]

It gets upvoted because anti-Apple and Anti-Jobs stories feed the drooling hordes who seem to have become the majority here.

[pavs]

> News is supposed to be new, correct?

I don't think there is any rule on HN that says that all submitted stuff has to be new.

[bornhuetter]

There isn't. Stuff gets posted all the time with [year] in the title; if it's interesting it gets upvoted.

[skidding]

It's highly probable that someone saw it while checking out the aufond.me demo a few points down the front page (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5879071)

http://aufond.me/sivers/got-dissed-by-steve-jobs

[beshrkayali]

That's exactly what happened.

The only reason why I submitted it is that it was news to me.