[Discuss] Econonomic contribution

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Let's not forget that Ritchie created the very platform/foundation that apple heavily relied on.

--- On Sat, 10/15/11, Daniel C. <dcrookston at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Daniel C. <dcrookston at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Econonomic contribution
> To: markw at mohawksoft.com
> Cc: discuss at blu.org
> Date: Saturday, October 15, 2011, 12:13 AM
> Ritchie.  Jobs made things
> pretty, which helped people enjoy using
> them (and he was fantastic at it).  But the actual
> "work" at Apple was
> done by other people.  This leads to the question of
> whether vision
> and direction (which Jobs provided in spades) should be
> counted as
> less important than technical acumen.  I'm not going
> to answer this
> question - rather I'm going to point out that Ritchie, in
> addition to
> providing actual engineering savvy, also provided vision
> and direction
> (in spades) to the software and computing world. 
> Whether you count
> Ritchie's technical + vision sum as greater or less than
> Jobs'
> marketing + vision + belligerently stealing other people's
> ideas and
> pretending they were his.  (You can guess where I
> stand.)
> 
> -Dan
> 
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:39 PM,  <markw at mohawksoft.com>
> wrote:
> > Had a little debate, at work, about the importance of
> the work two men.
> > Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie.
> >
> > Who contributed more to the world and who created more
> wealth? We all know
> > who had more money, but who was more important?
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