[dgreensp]

I love how the first half of the scan is cropped off at: "Jobs did not even eradicate poverty..." What a failure of a man.

I agree that the world needs leaders and visionaries in other areas besides computer products, but hey, I'll take what I can get.

I disagree with the rest of the article -- the claims that Jobs was not great, that he shirked his duty to humanity by not giving enough to charity, that he didn't "better the lives of his fellow human beings," that he promoted the idea of profit as motivation.

There are in fact simple refutations or counterpoints for most of this. A corporation that uses profits to fund future development is a perfectly reasonable vehicle for doing good in the world. Jobs was not primarily motivated by money. And he made explicit that his way of changing the world was by bringing it great tools for creative minds.