From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RF7n3-0002yT-7R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:12:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 52E9921C114; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DBC5621C085 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:11:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 15 Oct 2011 17:11:33 -0000 Received: from e181226049.adsl.alicedsl.de (EHLO toxic.dbnet) [85.181.226.49] by mail.gmx.net (mp011) with SMTP; 15 Oct 2011 19:11:33 +0200 X-Authenticated: #351132 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18BXEEPKLUByLyRVyXmUiZSQUUuYKf8m1fxJiEd3b pHl2aPaKMlI3rl Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:11:31 +0200 From: Jonas de Buhr To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie Message-ID: <20111015191131.6ec03bd3@toxic.dbnet> In-Reply-To: References: <20111015093304.7ad84101@acme7.acmenet> <4E997C00.3080501@genestate.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 9f27a4a6bcf7c2494709f97eeb567bdc Am Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:47:07 +0300 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras : > On 10/15/2011 03:26 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: > > On 15/10/2011 12:33, luis jure wrote: > > > > I have spent the last few hours trying to explain his work to the > > folks here who were so saddened by Steve Jobs passing. While it is > > very sad on both counts, I am getting annoyed by the opinion that > > "Richie might have helped popularise C, but SJ invented the > > iPhone...which is 10x more useful". > > If you're not insanely rich, nobody cares if you die. It's not about > how much you contributed to human society. It's about how much money > you made. i don't think its about money, but about popularity. everybody knows who steve jobs is, thats why his death makes front page. average joe doesn't know ritchie and doesn't care about C.