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

[Paul Sture]

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<b0383f9d-0466-4530-bb7b-6fbfcd7f4ed3 at fx14g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
 John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 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).

Graham Lilley (England cricketer) featured in the same Radio 4 news that 
announced Bert Jansch's death. That same announcement told s that 
Jansch's work was greatly admired by Jimmy Page, who I assume rather 
more readers are familiar with.

> "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.

Did The Wail mention the price of Olsen's house?  :-)
 
> 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qpmv
> http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/06/us-nobel-medicine-experiment-idUSTRE
> 7956CN20111006
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1354951/Ken-Olsen-Computer-pion
> eer-dies-aged-84.html

Thanks for the links.

-- 
Paul Sture