[Info-vax] Fwd: Apple says company co-founder Steve Jobs has died

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 10/6/2011 4:12 PM, MG wrote:
> On 6-10-2011 5:06, JF Mezei wrote:
>> Steve died at the peak of his career. This is quite different from Ken
>> Olsen, another visionary who had great impact on the computing world who
>> got to live for a few decades after leaving Digital before passing away.
>
> Unlike Ken Olsen, Steve Jobs is often deified and gets media coverage
> all the time; or else his registered trademarks and logos. Only some
> online publications, along with a few institutions (like one American
> university) made mention of Olsen's death, in terms recognition in
> the mass-media and overall mention in general. Even DEC 'inheritor'
> HP barely made mention of Ken Olsen's passing away. So, yes, there
> is definitely a difference alright.
>
> Today in news broadcasts here, countless were praising Jobs, calling
> him a "genius" "God" (literal citations) and attributing things he was
> not responsible for (i.e. the "first MP3 player", "first GUI" and so
> on). I really don't appreciate history falsification, at all.
>
> - MG

Try "ignorance" in place of falsification!