GUI Pioneer Jef Raskin Has Passed Away

Viridian writes "Jef Raskin, GUI pioneer, interface expert, Apple employee #31, and the man most credited with the creation of the Apple Macintosh, died of cancer on Saturday February 26, 2005. It was Raskin who named it after his favorite fruit, the McIntosh apple, although he said that he changed the spelling to "Macintosh" to avoid potential copyright conflicts with McIntosh, the audio equipment manufacturer."

Comments

Re:Nothing on the Apple Site

[northcat]

Because "Steve" is just another wealthy industrialist who only cares about money and doesn't care about the users or employees.

Re:Jef Raskin Memorial TBA and details

[Reservoir Penguin]

I dont get it. He died of cancer just after few months??? His wife should be ashamed because she obviously didnt encourage him to seek treatment. And this is not a troll. I speak from experience seeing how doctors only gave a few months to live for my wife's borther but with full family ecouragement he is still alive years later.