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Granted, Jobs was not always a nice person behind closed doors. However, at least during his Apple 2.0 days, he did NOT trash the people working for him in publ
by microtherion 15y ago
Granted, Jobs was not always a nice person behind closed doors. However, at least during his Apple 2.0 days, he did NOT trash the people working for him in public the way Linus habitually does.
Another difference is that a lot of people working for Jobs (again, at least during the Apple 2.0 days) made f* you money for their efforts. There are engineers making a living working on Linux, but not on that scale, I think.
- ajross 15y agoHe also didn't praise people working for him in public. Or mention people working for him in public. At all. Are you sure you aren't mistaking silence for civility?
- ugh 15y agoSteve Jobs regularily praised the people working for Apple, sometimes as a group, sometimes by name. Watch any Keynote to see that.
- dedward 15y agoAre any of these people working for Linus? Is he paying them? Are they not free to fork off their own kernel tree if they don't like the way he maintains his? Jobs was running a company, and paying people directly for results..... (all other judgement aside)