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Does GNU/Linux need cult figures like Jobs?

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Sam Varghese
May 14, 2009

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Varghese
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“Technology companies tend to retain their focus when
the founders stay on well beyond the point when the product has
made its mark. It is, thus, not surprising that Jobs, the younger
of the two Steves who founded Apple, has become synonymous with the
brand.

“Steve Wozniak was the technical brain behind Apple, the man who
developed the Apple I and II. Without him, there would have been no
Apple. Jobs was his friend, a few years junior to him, and has
great marketing skills – some even describe him as the world’s
greatest salesman.

“But has Apple come to overly depend on Jobs? Is it a good thing
when someone comes to symbolise an operating system to this
extent?”

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Sam Varghese

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