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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."
It got a bit pathetic with people running around talking about how Steve Jobs invented the mouse, the personal computer, the smartphone, the media player, the tablet, and practically sliced bread. The guy was an excellent product designer with a good eye for where the market was going to go next. He was no more instrumental in shaping 21st century society than any other fashion designer. And yay, he was yet another ruthless capitalist, yawn!
You actually expect the masses to STFU about how Steve "invented" this and that when there are still people walking around who believe we have Al Gore to thank for the Internet, kissing his feet for enlightening us about global warming as he continues to rake it in from that bullshit? Talk about ruthless capitalism.
And no matter how ugly we may attempt to portray any businessman for being "ruthless", it doesn't even hold a candle to what organized religion takes in both cash and blood, every single day.
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.