On 10/11/2011 9:39 PM, scritch wrote:
A brilliant innovator and marketer. Changed the way we work with computers.

However, Apples have stolen family-wage jobs here to be made in foreign
factories that cruelly exploit their employees and ruin the environment,
with the expectation that the poor folks here will still forever buy the
Apples with their last dimes, all to enrich some shareholders who
apparently believe these bad practices will never affect them.

I'm pretty conflicted about Mr. Jobs.


See if you can find a copy of "The Pirates of Silicone Valley" on DVD.

Jobs was a jerk.

But compared to Bill Gates he's a Knight in Shining Armor.

I interviewed with Jobs as a programmer - LONG long ago.
I'm forever thankful that I wasn't all that interesting to him.

I did pretty good as a PC Assembly programmer.