[mdlug] Why I will not praise Steve Jobs

[Robert Adkins II]

The same kinds of things can be said about Henry Ford and other "Great
Innovators".

They can come up with some wickedly cool shit or pull together the pieces to
build wickely cool shit, but they can be complete and total asshats.

Whether they are just curmudgeons or extreme in their personal ideology, the
people that make big/great things/changes, tend to create a good number of
"enemies".

I would Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, Richard Stallman, Bill Gates and many
similar movers and shakers into the same overlapped region of a Venn
Diagram.

In the case of Stallman's piece, I would say that the Source Code is calling
the Compiled Kernel black.

-Rob

(Good lord, did I just write out a monologue to next be seen on "The Big
Bang Theory"?)
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Garry Stahl
> Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2011 9:57 AM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Why I will not praise Steve Jobs
> 
> On 10/08/2011 08:37 AM, Mark Stanislav wrote:
> > If people want to disparage the dead on a LUG list, OT may 
> at least be 
> > in order :)
> 
> Hardly off topic.  Very computer related.
> 
> Like Stallman quoted.  I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone.
> 
> It remains to be seen if Apple can return to it's roots of 
> openness or it will remain as Stallman said, "A Jail that is cool".
> 
> At one point I have a Mac "Implant" card from my Amiga.  Very 
> compatable the early Macs and Amigas.  They used the same 
> processor.  When I looked at the price of Mac software, three 
> time the price of Windows which on average was three times 
> the price of Amiga wares, I sold the thing to a bigger fool 
> for what I paid for it.
> 
> -- 
> Garry  AKA  --Phoenix--  Rising above the Flames.
> 
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