Photos. Richard M. Stallman on Steve Jobs: "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone" I'm not sure what Richard M.
Stallman, software freedon activist and the main author of the GNU General Public License, was thinking when he wrote this over on his personal blog: Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died. As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone. " Nobody deserves to have to die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. I can understand that Apple's view of computing is at odds with Stallman's view of the world, but this sort of outburst is uncalled for. I've come across a lot of crazy things said by a lot of crazy people over the past few days, but this is by far the craziest. (via The Loop) Toute l’actu que j’ai loupée pendant la semaine ! Craig Froehle. Do go read Groklaw on this issue.
But first reach into your pocket and empy out its contents, or walk through your kitchen and look at the corners on your toaster, waffle iron, and stove... not a non-rounded corner anywhere to be found in your pocke or our kitchen apliances. Go watch this video Johnny Mnemonic Future Internet excerpt from Johny Mnemonic (1985) where he does pinch-to-zoom (abet two handed) four times, and things have "inertia" in the display.
(nothing "bounces" but nothing reaches a hard edge so one expects things would bounce.) Now go look at the PADD from Star Trek: the next generation et al. Rectangles with rounded corners. Then go look at the Sony Clie and all the other Palm Pilots, and most windows boxes, to see square icons with rounded corners. Apple is as innovative as any other copycat in the industry. Then read the part where he led them to find a just punishment in the verdict, which is not legally allowed since damages must be restitution for loss not punishment. Faut-il canoniser Steve Jobs. Suivez-nous sur : Nicolas Herpin, Jean-Baptiste Soufron ©Radio France/Pierre Lepoutre Ca ne va pas fort depuis le début de la semaine pour les propriétaires de Blackberry. 3 jours sans pouvoir envoyer ni recevoir d’emails sur leur téléphone.
La faute à une grosse panne sur « un commutateur de cœur du réseau ». Sur les réseaux sociaux, les adeptes de l’Iphone, le concurrent de BlackBerry, affichent un grand sourire. Faut-il voir derrière cette défaillance une manœuvre posthume de Steve Jobs ? Les autres titres de presse ne sont d’ailleurs pas en reste, jonglant avec le vocabulaire mystico-religieux. Steve Jobs : personnage fascinant, voire inquiétant si l’on en juge par les réactions de ses nombreux adeptes.
Mais quand Martine Aubry se fend d’un communiqué pour saluer un « créateur de génie », quand Nicolas Sarkozy salue « l’une des grandes figures de notre temps », quand le président russe Dmitri Medvedev estime sur Twitter que « les gens comme Steve Jobs changent notre monde ».