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Please don't compare the two. Steve Jobs created a massive company. Thousands of jobs. He created products we all love and use. Stallman just goes around rant
by maximusprime 15y ago
Please don't compare the two.
Steve Jobs created a massive company. Thousands of jobs. He created products we all love and use.
Stallman just goes around ranting mad rants at people.
- jrockway 15y agoEmacs has allowed me to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars. Apple products? Nope.
- maximusprime 15y agoIt's a text editor.
- jrockway 15y agoYes. I edit text for a living.
- maximusprime 15y agoAnyone can write a text editor though. It's fairly simple. It's beyond bizarre to compare the creation of a massive company, thousands of jobs, numerous earth shattering products which enhance the lives of millions, with a text editor a few programmers use. IMHO Stallman has been a net negative on the computer industry, and will not be remembered fondly outside the emacs niche userbase.
- officemonkey 15y agoComparing the two is a bit like comparing Thomas Paine to Thomas Edison. Stallman created a movement. A movement that largely predicted the ways technology and society interact. I think in 100 years people will still using the GPL. I can't say that about the iPod.
- maximusprime 15y agoBS. Free software existed well before Stallman.
- DanBC 15y agoDo you have any examples please?
- ghaff 15y agoThe first BSD work predated GNU by a good seven years.
- officemonkey 15y agoThe first BSD license is not Copyleft.