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

[John Wallace]

On Oct 6, 9:12 pm, MG <marcog... at SPAMxs4all.nl> 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

Well said.

BBC Radio 4 does an obituary programme, Last Word, (link below) which
is on at a time when I've often been in the car. This week's episode
was fairly typical:  a Nobel-winning scientist, a photographer. A
technology cult leader who didn't cure cancer but suffered from it and
whose life and death had already had more than enough coverage
elsewhere. And a musician, a photographer, and a Nobel-winning
scientist whose work *did* help the world better understand how to
cope with cancer.

I didn't listen to the headline item, but came back for the rest:
musician Bert Jansch, whose name may be familiar to some readers. The
scientist, whose name won't be familiar but whose global impact will
hopefully last longer and benefit more than Jobs' works, had passed
away a day or so before the Nobel committee awarded him this year's
Nobel for medicine (Ralph Steinman, link below, also a victim of
pancreatic cancer).

"Even DEC 'inheritor' HP barely made mention of Ken Olsen's passing
away"

Rather amazingly, the UK tabloid rag the Daily Mail had an article on
Olsen. They got the name wrong a couple of times but on the whole it
wasn't too bad considering their usual output.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qpmv
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/06/us-nobel-medicine-experiment-idUSTRE7956CN20111006
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1354951/Ken-Olsen-Computer-pioneer-dies-aged-84.html