On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:58 PM, A. Mani <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Jishnu <[email protected]> wrote: >> Please read this post http://www.muktware.com/news/2618 >> > > +1 > > > Stallman just spoke facts and I appreciate his honesty. There was > nothing personal in his remark. The way some maudlins are reacting on > the Internet looks like he said "Steve jobs was evil all through, I > wanted him dead all along and now I regret that he did not die at my > hands" :) ... > > All of the innovation came from others and Jobs stole designs as well. > Apple is no innovative company ... the general thinking of marketing > people like Jobs has been to 'avoid the headache of innovating' and > 'if it is crap then market it as a feature'. > People with Xerox for example developed windows, mouse, pull down > menus, WYSIWG, ethernet, laser printer ... but the company was more > interested in copier business. Their bureaucracy did not understand or > was not interested in marketing. The development of PCs was due to a > large number of people and Jobs hardly contributed except maybe at > the marketing level.
In addition, Stallman spoke about it on his personal website and not on FSF.org That simply means you have to take it as personal opinion. FSF believes in Freedom of speech as in Freedom in computing. The simple problem of this thread is equating the personal opinion of RMS, expressed in his personal website with the position of FSF. I also share a different view about Steve with many others . But i on thant position, The organizations i am associated with may not be sharing that one. And I oppose any efforts to shape my opinions as per organisations position. I think this is simply the case here as well Anivar _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
