Comments on: Open Source Mouthpiece Richard Stallman Writes Steve Jobs Eulogy https://techcitement.com/hardware/open-source-mouthpiece-richard-stallman-writes-steve-jobs-eulogy/ get excited Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Adam Crocker https://techcitement.com/hardware/open-source-mouthpiece-richard-stallman-writes-steve-jobs-eulogy/#comment-1144 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:11:00 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=4940#comment-1144 As an avid Linux user, I can’t help but agree with this comment. I don’t have a lot of experience with Apple Products and I’ve heard some nasty criticisms of those products from some people, but attacking it on the basis of it being copyrighted software that is sold for profit, and is popular, is just dumb. (What? Does he expect the copyright system and modern capitalism not to be applied to computer products?) Especially when you consider all the other legitimate criticism that could have been brought up about Jobs’ behaviour and practices.

Plus without Jobs nicking the ideas from Xerox (which frankly the company wasn’t very effective at marketing or getting out there) we wouldn’t have had the graphical user interface that is now an essential piece of modern computing. And I don’t know about Mr. Stallman, but all of the Linux OSes I have worked with or seen screen shots of use a point-and-click GUI that has its roots in what Apple developed.

]]> By: person287 https://techcitement.com/hardware/open-source-mouthpiece-richard-stallman-writes-steve-jobs-eulogy/#comment-938 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:58:53 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=4940#comment-938 When I went onto his site the first thing I though was this just reeks of “I’m right, you’re wrong, if you don’t think like me just shut it”. It just seems so arrogant, from the ‘Don’t use Facebook (It’s evil bla bla bla)’, the massive amounts of really unfounded propaganda, and the whole crappiness of the design of the site which just seems like he can’t be bothered.

This isn’t a personal attack on him, and if he reads it don’t take it personally because I’m not saying you are like that, it’s just my impression from the info, and I understand that not all people will agree with me or might interpret it that way, but he just doesn’t sound like the sort of person I’d like to be friends with!

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