Thanks, Geoff, for the "correcting" details. I knew almost nothing
about Steve. The videos were from 2005. If he did wrong -- and he
obviously did -- there will be something that will take care of it
all. But at least/at last, suffering and the approach of death makes
us obviously/hopefully less "ruthless" and more "human". Never too
late ...
Farid.
Zitat von Geoffrey Heard <[log in to unmask]>:
> At 10:54 AM +0200 6/10/11, Farid Benfeghoul wrote:
>> Dear Kino,
>>
>> When I woke up this morning, I heard Steve Jobs passed away, at age
>> 56. Somehow, I thought, with detachment, that this how life is. But
>> a couple of hours later, watching those inspiring, uplifting and
>> touching videos you kindly posted for us, I realized what a
>> wonderful human Steve was -- beside of being such a creative
>> genius! Yes, thank you Steve!
>
> I appreciate the Macintosh but . . .
>
> "Wonderful human"? Are we talking about the guy who denied paternity
> of his first child, going to the bizarre extreme of claiming he was
> sterile and thus it was impossible for him to be the father (he
> later, much later, admitted paternity; how nice of him)? Who drove
> his employees mercilessly -- 80 hour working weeks are spoken of
> (sure there were big rewards for some, but for those who buckled it
> was the door)? Who out-Microsofted Microsoft in using litigation to
> jam down on any competition? Who along with Gates and Tea Party
> types has been supporting the formation of charter schools which
> undermine the public school system in the USA? Who used charity
> donations as a marketing ploy early in Apple history and didn't
> revive them when the company began to be hyper-successful?
>
> He was a very smart businessman but also a very ruthless one. Like Gates.
>
> Wozniak built the Mac. The GUI came from Xerox. Jobs's creativity
> was clearly in business tied to an unrelenting drive that meant he
> stopped at nothing.
>
> I admire achievement in any field but I don't admire the output of
> the PR machines that turn ruthless businessmen into wondrous, well
> rounded, caring, human beings -- or rather, the facsimile of same.
>
> Cheers, geoff
>
> Geoffrey Heard
> Business & Environment Writer, Editor, Publisher
> The Worsley Press
>
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