Woz and Jobs started out building Blue Boxes (https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/blue-box-designed-an...) They then created Apple as a hobbyist outfit in a garage, soldering chips together so they could demo a DIY computer programmed in Assembler at a computer club. As opposed to what, a company that exists to sell the equivalent of billboard ads on the Internet? Out of Big Tech, Apple has the strongest claim to any kind of hacker culture.

And when Jobs got the contract from Atari, he lied to Woz about how much it paid so he could take the lion's share. Fraud culture is unfortunately part of their blood too, something we ought to excise if we want the tech industry to be taken seriously in the long-run.

Everything I read leads me to believe that Steve Jobs was not a virtuous person, though I keep trying to find the silver lining.

How should one test for ethics? A reference check comes to mind, but it is not a test that you can apply fairly.

> How should one test for ethics?

You ask if that's how you'd like to be treated.