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A great many people seem to think we'd have been better off without Steve actually. They will tell you Steve/Apple set back the free software movement, and brou
by andrewljohnson 14y ago
A great many people seem to think we'd have been better off without Steve actually. They will tell you Steve/Apple set back the free software movement, and brought dictatorship to the world of software, when the web used to rule with anarchic democracy. They would tell you he sells closed devices that neuter people's creativity, and that the devices are hard to hack or dispose of.
I think he was a brilliant artist who made technology less imposing.
- vor_ 14y agoI think a great many other people--mainstream customers who don't read websites like Hacker News--would argue that they don't care about the free software movement or hacking devices. They think people using the term "dictatorship" in reference to computer software are extremists. They just want Shit That Works.