"Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom..." - Richard Stallman
I could never hope to come up with a more perfect description of Steve Jobs myself. The rest of Stallman's post on the matter also earns a resounding "ditto" from me (Yes, I said "ditto". I'm not even going to try to top what's already been so well put.):
"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.
Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective." - Richard Stallman
I'm irritated at Iternational Business Times's Amrutha Gayathri referring to Stallman's post as "grossly inappropriate". Stallman stated flat out, "I'm not glad he's dead". So, yea, let's continue our society's idiotic little game of pretending that dying automatically turns everyone into a retroactive saint.
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