[mdlug] Why I will not praise Steve Jobs

[Aaron Kulkis]

Mark Stanislav wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Garry Stahl<tesral at wowway.com>  wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Computer related? The original post was about why you won't praise
> Steve Jobs. Where's the reference to something of a technical nature,
> at all?
>
> Gawker is a web site focused on 'gossip' ; it's not Linux related and
> not even focused on technology.
>
> Feel free to voice whatever opinion it is you have on someone but
> don't pretend like the original post wasn't just opining about someone
> mildly adjacent to the purpose of a LUG mailing list.
>
>>
>> Like Stallman quoted.  I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone.
>
> Okay?
>
>>
>> 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".
>
> Okay?
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> This is your technically-focused point for a LUG mailing list that
> isn't OT? Sigh.
>
> I'm glad you feel so free to give your opinion about things, but, that
> doesn't make it on-topic just because you will it to be so. Just use
> OT like everyone else on the Internet and we can all filter properly.
> Thanks.


Personally, it was Jobs behavior.. and its effect on Apple that
made me stop supporting Apple in the early Macintosh years...
and frankly, they lost me.

The Apple II and it's culture was great.  Jobs destroyed that --
watch the movie the Pirates of Silicon Valley and there is a
rather accurate depiction of the harm Jobs was causing to Apple.

He set the Macintosh group at war with the rest of the company,
completely alienating not only those employees, but more importantly,
the customer bases of the non-Macintosh group.


How this could NOT be relevant to computing is beyond me.