Adam Osborne would have been just another entrant into the early-80's desktop race, were it not for two things: first, his wildly popular publishing house for computer manuals, and second, his recruitment of brilliant, politically radical hacker Lee Felsenstein as his chief hardware engineer. When Osborne openly bragged to Apple employees that his upcoming line of computers would dominate the industry, Steve Jobs found out about it and responded with a phone call:
The secretary informed Steve that Mr. Osborne was not available, and would not be back in the office until tomorrow morning. She asked Steve if he would like to leave a message. "Yes", Steve replied. He paused for a second. "Here's my message. Tell Adam he's an asshole."
There was a long delay, as the secretary tried to figure out how to respond. Steve continued, "One more thing. I hear that Adam's curious about the Macintosh. Tell him that the Macintosh is so good that he's probably going to buy a few for his children even though it put his company out of business!"
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