Who the hell said that Mac was a "great humanitarian cause" and that Apple was selfless? All that I implied was that thousands of man hours of work was flushed down the toilet because Microsoft supposedly threatened to not renew the license for Applesoft BASIC if Apple released Mac BASIC. If you were on the development team that created Mac BASIC, you were probably pissed. If you were the author of that book, you were probably pissed. Everything that they did was for nothing, not because of their own failure but because of a competitor's successful attempt to blackmail the vendor.
If it was your work that was shamefully discarded like that and you could suck it up and take that type of abuse, you are a remarkable person. I would also suggest that you are a fool.