Disclaimer: I know there are a lot of Apple empathizers who can't take anything against Apple, let alone Steve jobs. They need to forgive me and I have nothing against the dead people mentioned in my post.
Today I saw a link shared in my facebook page about a comparison between Danise Ritchie and Steve Jobs. While learning computers, I studied who invented Unix and C and it was Danise Ritchie, beyond that I had no idea about his life and profession.
In October 2011, almost all the news papers, magazine, TV channels, social media buzzed with the sad demise of Apple founder Steve Jobs. I was also one of the people who condoled Steve's death and purchased some magazines just because they published Steve Jobs picture and his life story on the cover.
Only today I discovered that Danise Ritchie and Steve Jobs died almost in the same week, but I did not see any news magazine, TV, social media reporting a single word about the death of Steve Jobs. Pathetic!! Lets see what both of them did.
Steve Jobs produced Sleek looking computers with amazing GUIs for a heavy price. No Steve, there will be no expansive laptops, mac machines, iPhones, iPods, iPads and so on. What would we loose if iProducts were not flooding the market?? My estimation is "ZERO". I am not a iProduct user and still not Crippled. I still function at the same pace as an iUser would. Plus I save a lot of time by not browsing my iPhone consistently or staring at my iPad for media or playing games. I don't have to check my emails while traveling or see a video while doing something else. Plus, I don't need a Macintosh to do any of my regular work. Now who is a gainer? Obviously I, because I save all that money I would have wasted on iProducts and can donate them to charity plus save my time. I don't think I need to say anything about iPod(although I won one!) or iTunes. I rest my case here....
Danise Ritchie on the other hand invented the core of computing that is Unix and C. Unix is a robust operating system and C is robust programming language!!! Every computer science major have to pass through the rigors of Unix and C to succeed as a successful programmer. Most of the GUIs are written in C or C derived languages. No C, we would be still dealing with binary languages. Apple at some point used Unix as its operating system. Unix has regular expression that is copied and vastly used in perl language. Most of the servers run on Unix. This is the least I can say about the founder of Unix and C. But compared to Steve Jobs, what treatment did Danise Ricthie got?
This raises a very important question about whom we humans value the most? Certainly not the person who has invented and contributed the most to humanity and given his products for free; but the one who has used the invention, packaged it nicely and kept huge royalties for himself and grew rich...
Today I saw a link shared in my facebook page about a comparison between Danise Ritchie and Steve Jobs. While learning computers, I studied who invented Unix and C and it was Danise Ritchie, beyond that I had no idea about his life and profession.
In October 2011, almost all the news papers, magazine, TV channels, social media buzzed with the sad demise of Apple founder Steve Jobs. I was also one of the people who condoled Steve's death and purchased some magazines just because they published Steve Jobs picture and his life story on the cover.
Only today I discovered that Danise Ritchie and Steve Jobs died almost in the same week, but I did not see any news magazine, TV, social media reporting a single word about the death of Steve Jobs. Pathetic!! Lets see what both of them did.
Steve Jobs produced Sleek looking computers with amazing GUIs for a heavy price. No Steve, there will be no expansive laptops, mac machines, iPhones, iPods, iPads and so on. What would we loose if iProducts were not flooding the market?? My estimation is "ZERO". I am not a iProduct user and still not Crippled. I still function at the same pace as an iUser would. Plus I save a lot of time by not browsing my iPhone consistently or staring at my iPad for media or playing games. I don't have to check my emails while traveling or see a video while doing something else. Plus, I don't need a Macintosh to do any of my regular work. Now who is a gainer? Obviously I, because I save all that money I would have wasted on iProducts and can donate them to charity plus save my time. I don't think I need to say anything about iPod(although I won one!) or iTunes. I rest my case here....
Danise Ritchie on the other hand invented the core of computing that is Unix and C. Unix is a robust operating system and C is robust programming language!!! Every computer science major have to pass through the rigors of Unix and C to succeed as a successful programmer. Most of the GUIs are written in C or C derived languages. No C, we would be still dealing with binary languages. Apple at some point used Unix as its operating system. Unix has regular expression that is copied and vastly used in perl language. Most of the servers run on Unix. This is the least I can say about the founder of Unix and C. But compared to Steve Jobs, what treatment did Danise Ricthie got?
This raises a very important question about whom we humans value the most? Certainly not the person who has invented and contributed the most to humanity and given his products for free; but the one who has used the invention, packaged it nicely and kept huge royalties for himself and grew rich...
