Saturday, October 15, 2011

Steve, Media and Me

Today I found the Apple web site stating that the Steve jobs is no more, and started writing this post to bring out my thoughts about the Apple and Steve.

It Started from my school days, when I was in 9th grade. Every one used to talk about Mr. Gates every where that time. But I dint knew who Jobs is... I was inspired by Gates name and the his talent. Suddenly I came to know that there is one more competitor to Microsoft who's company name is Apple Inc after all I am an Indian. After knowing about Apple I starter thinking Jobs is a villain who copy every thing from Microsoft and sell it at high price.

As days went one day I, happened to watch the movie “Pirates Of Silicon Vally”, and finally realized who was best. Anyways after watching movie I got inspired by Steve Jobs, the way he started his company in garage was touching. Of-course I haven't used apple product in my life time, but still I love the way they are made the round corners. One of my friend owns iPhone, i used to grab it from him in college timings and used to play with that and i admire the way it is built. What a normal man needs more than a phone which is integrated with all the features and the latest technologies.

But I am not a normal man but a Software Developer, more over a FOSS activist. Being FOSS activist I cannot support the person who is against my thoughts. Still i love the way he worked. What i found on the day of his death almost every one around the world posted the messages RIP jobs. I was thinking that I am the only person who is inspired by jobs but I was wrong there are so many people who really like jobs because of his innovations.

10 days later I found that, Dennis Ritchie was found dead on October 12, 2011, at the age of 70 at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, where he lived alone. I was not able to believe the news since only few were talking about that. If Steve is the father of innovations then Ritchie is the Godfather of inventions, who bought out C programming language and UNIX operating system which are still the base of the other technologies such as Linux, Android, C++, Php, JVM.
But Media reject that great person instead who are not really up-to that status it was given to him, media really sucks and they do only what they like.

But I would like to make clear one thing. Without Ritchie there is no C then no C++, and if no C++ then there is no JVM. I respect Dennis Ritchie no mater how this world rejects him. May his soul rest in peace.