Let's not forget that Ritchie created the very platform/foundation that apple heavily relied on.
--- On Sat, 10/15/11, Daniel C. <dcrooks...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Daniel C. <dcrooks...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Discuss] Econonomic contribution > To: ma...@mohawksoft.com > Cc: discuss@blu.org > Date: Saturday, October 15, 2011, 12:13 AM > Ritchie. Jobs made things > pretty, which helped people enjoy using > them (and he was fantastic at it). But the actual > "work" at Apple was > done by other people. This leads to the question of > whether vision > and direction (which Jobs provided in spades) should be > counted as > less important than technical acumen. I'm not going > to answer this > question - rather I'm going to point out that Ritchie, in > addition to > providing actual engineering savvy, also provided vision > and direction > (in spades) to the software and computing world. > Whether you count > Ritchie's technical + vision sum as greater or less than > Jobs' > marketing + vision + belligerently stealing other people's > ideas and > pretending they were his. (You can guess where I > stand.) > > -Dan > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:39 PM, <ma...@mohawksoft.com> > wrote: > > Had a little debate, at work, about the importance of > the work two men. > > Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie. > > > > Who contributed more to the world and who created more > wealth? We all know > > who had more money, but who was more important? > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss