"Jim Devine" <[email protected]> wrote: > Morgan, Rothschild, Rockefeller? wouldn't "Murdoch" -- or something > else, such as "corporate" -- be a better term to speak to folks > outside of the self-defined left? or how about the "Steve Jobs press"? > they treat him like a demigod, even though he was an > anti-philanthropist and a tax-evader.
I don't think that Jobs was a tax-evader although Apple may have legally evaded taxes. His blue-box(?) days may have shown some tendency to illegal activity. I am not sure that philanthropic activity makes one an ethical person -- just look at the Koch brothers. It might be better for people to invest in producing more enterprises to keep people employed. Jobs did mention that he was mistaken to pursue alternative medicine to treat his health condition. Jobs actually did quite well on his NeXT enterprise by consulting with academia to develop a 1 megapixel workstation to compete with Sun. Of course, his leadership then worked against him. Apple persuaded Motorola to discontinue the 68000 processor line which required NeXT to port to Intel and to cease manufacturing their own computers. Apple then bought NeXT and Jobs to slowly get Apple back on track. -- Ron
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