This is what struck me about the article as well. What exactly is infamous about woz?
Well he proposed to Kathy Griffin? /shrug, looks like they've edited to remove the offending word.
Does infamous not mean "evil" or "bad reputation"? How come people keep using it as if its a good thing?
Infamous does indeed refer to the bad kind of fame - this is either a simple brain fart, or possibly the writer just doesn't have a very sound grasp of the language.
@potatolicous - Maybe they are Canadian? We seem to use that word wrong all the time.
Lets just call him LEGENDARY.
Canadian here, I've always heard infamous used in the negative context?
It was probably just me and the red-neck rural inbred area I'm from.
Lower mainland of BC here. Could just be I've been interpreting folks wrong for years.
I guarantee you I'm from a more red-neck area. In fact, we are infamous for our rednecks.
It does, but it is often used ironically. So much so that it has started to be used incorrectly, or un-ironically.
He's not just famous.
I think that's it. The phrase "the famous, or even infamous, ..." is fairly common. Monkey see, monkey do.