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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
This is incredibly important. You don't want to piss on the guy's grave, but he didn't exactly invent protease inhibitors or the Polio vaccine.
In some ways, this is almost like the death of the Georgio Armani of Computers. He didn't invent the damned thing, he just came up with ways to make it more convenient, but more than anything, fashionable.
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This is the most dead on accurate statement in the entire thread.
Though as much as I don't like the man himself, I won't undersell how influential he was because of his ability to market his vision of technology to the masses...