Luis Iván Cuende

Steve Jobs died a couple days ago. Everyone said good words about Jobs, his products and his life, and how he made the world a better place.

Jobs was the best salesman of the world, that’s true. He was the most brilliant and the most inspiring.

But the world isn’t a better place thanks to him. As Richard Stallman said:

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

Stallman is a very strange person, but he is usually right. And in that post about Jobs, he was right.

Some of the people saying that Stallman is ill and that Jobs made the world better are people that don’t know who’s Stallman.

Stallman is the creator of one of the best creations of humanity, free software.

Don’t forgot that your iPhone is running thanks to Stallman’s work. Yes, and Jobs’ work too. The difference is that Stallman released the source code of his creations and Jobs’ didn’t.

Read it again and think, did Jobs make the world a better place?