A Few Words on the Passing of Steve Jobs
Silicon Valley mourns the loss of a technology visionary, fond remembrances flood the internet, as well as in archaic print. This is all fitting and proper. If you believe in capitalism, and I do even in these troubled times, you have to respect a man who bought the digital rights to Pixar from George Lucas for $10 million, and in the geologic blink of an eye, turned around and sold the firm to Disney for $7 billion. Now that's impressive. Most impressive.
Let us also be honest here: Steve Jobs was a supreme asshole who harmed plenty of people in his relentless corporate pursuits. It is a bit of a curiosity isn't it - technology titans like Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, and Bill Gates...all hugely successful, and all reported to be supreme assholes.
Even for a supreme asshole, it is a sad thing to see a man's life cut short.
Life marches on...
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