Sorry, but I have a helluva lot more respect for Steve Jobs than I do for Jonathan. Steve has legit bragging rights. What can Jonathan brag about? Taking $12 million in severance from Sun while his employees got two months of pay at most?
"My response was simple. "Steve, I was just watching your last presentation, and Keynote looks identical to Concurrence – do you own that IP?" Concurrence was a presentation product built by Lighthouse Design, a company I’d help to found and which Sun acquired in 1996. [...] Steve had used Concurrence for years, and as Apple built their own presentation tool, it was obvious where they’d found inspiration."
(emphasis mine)
And just for that he has my respect.
He may not have had time to implement his vision, and he was handed a brilliant but broken company to work with.
I've followed his blog closely for the last few years, and I would say he comes off as one of the most in-touch CEO's out there.
And regardless of any merits Jonathan had while CEO at SUN (starting 2006), under his guidance we've got open-source Java and OpenSolaris, not to mention increased focus on other open-source products like OpenOffice. So for the rest of us developers, it was a bigger win than anything Apple did from 2006 until now.
Also, your comment got "fanboy" written all over it.
Please keep in mind that this was the CEO under which a number of very questionable actions (anti-trust, SCO) were effected.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/01/29/davos.bill.gates.dona...
In the innovative products race Steve Jobs wins. In the does good things race Bill Gates wins. It's admirable.
If a mafioso gives his money to charity do you think that qualifies him for sainthood ?
Ask the stacker guys if they think Bill Gates is a nice person.
His company is a convicted monopolist by the US government,not by OSS fans.
More anecdotally, most people acknowledge that Windows is pretty shit these days.