[PLUG-TALK] Dennis Ritchie vs. Steve Jobs

[Russell Johnson]

On Oct 24, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Patrick Finn Robins wrote:

> I have seen this sentiment a lot as of late, I have to finally ask … in what way has Jobs or Apple ever made cooler to be a geek? I wonder if I am operating from a different definition of geek or am simply not seeing someting that Jobs did.

From the way I've always thought about it, Mr Bill actually did more in this regard. 

The reason it's more acceptable to be a computer geek is that so many of the non-geeks rely on computers. Love it or hate it, Windows was one of the reasons for that acceptance. 

Russell Johnson
russ at dimstar.net



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