Re: "oh boy"
Shows you that El Reg really sticks to their motto, "Biting the hand that feeds IT", doesn't it?
But a question is to be asked:
Do his material contributions "cancel out" his moral attitude (or rather, the lack of it)?
Or to give an inflated example that shows the dilemma more, let's say Nikola Tesla was in jail for a bunch of serious crimes. Is he entitled to an honorable mention post-mortem for his work, regardless of his "dark side"?
but none of these things would have happened without him.
It could be argued with equal facility that another genius might've come along and invented these same things, just in a different fashion.
Phones might've still retained buttons BlackBerry-style (and Android would've continued as planned originally, an OS for BlackBerry clones), or Microsoft could've possibly introduced Windows Mobile to the consumer market.
Or Steve Wozniak might've invented the Mac et al on his own.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
