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Dennis Ritchie‘s work, though invisible to us laymen, is a fundamental building block of every computer system we use today. Ritchie, also known as “dmr”, is best know for creating the C programming language as well as being instrumental in the development of UNIX along with Ken Thompson. Father Of C And UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, [...]
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Seeing people mourn Steve Jobs in public is making me uneasy. Was he a hero? Was he even a humanitarian? Richard Stallman, leader of the free software movement, has an alternative take on Steve Jobs’ life and passing… As one can surmise from that sendoff, Stallman’s and Jobs’ views on software as a business are [...]
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Co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, has died. In 1996, it was on the brink of irrelevance, but Jobs retook the reigns as CEO and turned Apple into a multi-disciplinary powerhouse of a company, even (briefly) to the level of most highly valued company on Earth. I’ve been an Apple customer and advocate from the age [...]
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What are they gonna say about him? What are they gonna say? That he was a kind man? That he was a wise man? That he had plans, man? That he had wisdom? Bullshit, man! Dennis Hopper Dead at 74 – ABC News
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