Re: The One Thing...

From: Charlie Stross (charlie@antipope.org)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2001 - 09:39:02 MST


On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:09:01AM -0600, Chris Russo wrote:
>
> To say that Steve Jobs wouldn't be missed is ridiculous.

You missed the Gilbert and Sullivan alusion (the Lord High Executioner's
song). My point was that Jobs is one of those egomaniacs the industry
tends to throw up, like Scott McNeally, Bill Gates, and Larry Ellison.

(Leaving aside my doubts about the wisdom of basing his recovery
plans for Apple on a repetition of NeXT's 1990 strategy -- which
failed.)

-- Charlie



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