Maybe it was so classified YOU didn’t know!

Hey, in my defense, it’s 2:44 AM. Same one you used.. it’s late =]

In retrospect, wrong-a-tude might have been even better.

The tricky thing with substantiating something like this is that I can’t — nobody published anything that says this didn’t happen, in part because there’s nobody who could publish it — pre-beta releases wouldn’t have been given to anyone except under a NDA, which would prevent their disclosing it, and so the only folks who would write about it are the ‘rumor’ sites, and they wouldn’t report non-news like “Mac OS 9 still doesn’t support protected memory”.  It’s a bit of a catch-22 — if you have to have citations, the only citations you could get would be from folks who don’t actually know the truth.

In the end, I’m ok with things.  The page says “investigated” now, which I guess is true, but there’s so much other stuff that also got investigated that isn’t listed.  I initially wrote this blog entry just to vent, and since I really don’t think anyone reads my blog I figured it would end there, but I guess folks picked it up from here and things steamrolled from there.

And if you’re old enough to have worked on Mac OS 9, I find it hard to believe that you were surprised that your personal comment on the page was removed… it belongs on the Talk page.

While I believe you know what you’re talking about (what possible reason could you have to lie…) you didn’t substantiate it.. all you did was say that you were a lead developer. I could claim to be George Bush, but that doesn’t make it true… and besides, who would want to be George Bush? Now, I believe you, so I’m not going to bother with getting into a war, but you were being a bit ridiculous.. none of us can verify who you are, so you’re basically getting angry at me because I doubt you. Dishonesty on the internet isn’t exactly uncommon…

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Articles should contain only material that has been published by reputable sources.

AppleInsider’s unnamed “sources” cannot be considered a reliable source, so the “Steve Jobs killed OS 9′s protected memory” thing shouldn’t be in the article.

Perhaps Gruber would be willing?