Well, it might sound abusive to add the i-tag to Free Software, I suppose.
After the demise of Steve Jobs, and the initial outpour of adulation of Steve Jobs and few trickles of criticism, I am late in getting this post up.
Steve Jobs' demise, personally to me has been the loss of an individual who showed people how to fight the odds. Like the many of you, even I too was deeply moved and inspired by his Stanford Speech. There is no denying that he was a man to look up to, and learn from at various levels.
But, when it comes to the perception of the entreprenuer Steve Jobs, there lies a deep disdain for some really important reasons I shall try to putforth in this post.
Steve Jobs: The Entreprenuer is not someone I would really be missing (I wrote this before RMS could say something on these lines); Given the fact that I am at awe with the aesthetics embedded in sleek pieces of Apple hardware, the point of contention is Steve Jobs being the grandest mascot of "Closed, Proprietary Technology" and in this process Jobs has driven his customers into the most dreadful of the proprietary shackles.
Before a couple of years, while I was in an offline discussion with Eben Moglen, he had expressed serious bitterness towards Steve Jobs and Apple. I later realized it was about the BSD code of the UNIX which all Apple products embed, and also of the initial free software projects which today reside behind Apple's closed doors. And today, carrying on with that legacy, there is virtually nothing that ain't super proprietary and really closed when it comes to Apple.
Further, Apple products apart from being the zenith of closed source software, they are also the certain baton holders of highly closed hardware, and now into the Digital Restricted Media realms, ultimately rendering the users with zero freedom.
And as the brain behind most of the Apple decisions, these are certain moves by Steve Jobs which have made the technological world a really bad place! It might be good for technology, it certainly is not for people!
Although a person who showed courage in battling his life through odds will be missed, a ruthless entrepreneuer and mascot of unfreedom will certainly become oblivous.
People, and their freedom first, is what we believe in the Free Software Movement.
Steve Jobs' demise, personally to me has been the loss of an individual who showed people how to fight the odds. Like the many of you, even I too was deeply moved and inspired by his Stanford Speech. There is no denying that he was a man to look up to, and learn from at various levels.
But, when it comes to the perception of the entreprenuer Steve Jobs, there lies a deep disdain for some really important reasons I shall try to putforth in this post.
Steve Jobs: The Entreprenuer is not someone I would really be missing (I wrote this before RMS could say something on these lines); Given the fact that I am at awe with the aesthetics embedded in sleek pieces of Apple hardware, the point of contention is Steve Jobs being the grandest mascot of "Closed, Proprietary Technology" and in this process Jobs has driven his customers into the most dreadful of the proprietary shackles.
Before a couple of years, while I was in an offline discussion with Eben Moglen, he had expressed serious bitterness towards Steve Jobs and Apple. I later realized it was about the BSD code of the UNIX which all Apple products embed, and also of the initial free software projects which today reside behind Apple's closed doors. And today, carrying on with that legacy, there is virtually nothing that ain't super proprietary and really closed when it comes to Apple.
Further, Apple products apart from being the zenith of closed source software, they are also the certain baton holders of highly closed hardware, and now into the Digital Restricted Media realms, ultimately rendering the users with zero freedom.
And as the brain behind most of the Apple decisions, these are certain moves by Steve Jobs which have made the technological world a really bad place! It might be good for technology, it certainly is not for people!
Although a person who showed courage in battling his life through odds will be missed, a ruthless entrepreneuer and mascot of unfreedom will certainly become oblivous.
People, and their freedom first, is what we believe in the Free Software Movement.
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