Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs

Garabito writes "Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, has posted his not-so-fond memories of Steve Jobs on his personal site, saying, 'As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die — not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing.' His statement has spurred reaction from the community; some even asking to the Free Software movement to find a new voice."

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Re:Thank god

[nomadic]

Agreed. The most confusing part was where suddenly people have been referring to Jobs as an "inventor" which is just absurd. And on a personal level everything I've heard about Jobs has indicated he was an unpleasant narcissist with no empathy for others, and no, I don't care if "that's how Apple became successful," I'm sick of our culture placing ability to make money above being a decent human being. This is a guy who Woz even admits could be dishonest, who canceled Apple's charity program (and no, creating Apple was not some great boon to mankind), whose own daughter had to live on welfare because Jobs refused to take responsibility for a good portion of her life, and who belittled and fired people for little or no reason.