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[swamynathan]

Dear friends,



Three days back two main headlines appeared in newspapers. The one 'Apple
launches its ipad4' and the other 'Steve Jobs breathed his last'



In Steve Job's words:

“Picasso had a saying, ‘Good artists copy, great artists steal.’ We have always
been shameless about stealing great ideas. ... I think part of what made the
Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets,
artists, zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer
scientists in the world.”



From the first product 'Apple-1' to the last one during his life time
'ipad-4', every introduction made computing more
treacherous(locked-codes) than the previous ones.



As individuals, everyone copies many ideas and as a group they come out with a
new idea far better than the originals(which is very natural!),  but
end up with pointing the deterrents 'copyright and patent' which
results in refusal of betterment
to the society which up-brought those individuals.

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RMS written in his blog:

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever
fools from their freedom, has died.



As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley,
"I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to
die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than
theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's
computing.



Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only
hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less
effective.

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One of the good quotes by Steve Jobs:

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. ... Going
to bed
at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, ... that’s what matters to me.”



In contrast he gave more of treacherous computing with least freedom!



The one question which pops up:

On the core, has he lived up to giving something, really, wonderful to the
society before his way to the cemetery?



Note:

"All the indications are that the present structure of large scale
industrial enterprise, in spite of heavy taxation and an endless
proliferation of legislation, is not conducive to the public welfare"

     - E.F.Schumacher in his book 'Small is beautiful'



Ref:

Steve Jobs in his own words 06-10-2011

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article2514412.ece



Steve Jobs

http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#06_October_2011_(Steve_Jobs)

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With love from India,
H. Swamynathan (aka meswamy)