[andsoitis]

That's binary thinking.

One can recognize someone's accomplishment in one domain even if it means they suck in another, even if they're a jerk.

Jobs is one such example. Another would be Bach. Newton, Nikola Tesla, John Lennon, William Golding, Winston Churchill, Einstein, Darwin, Edison, Prince, Henry Ford, Marie Curie, Schrödinger, Picasso, Marconi, etc. all come to mind as being despicable in some (or more) dimensions even though they were geniuses in others and moving humanity forward.

[dm270]

I think people start thinking he’s not just a jerk but his ulterior motives are nothing but despicable. And some people who think he really is a racist from Apartheid Sourh Africa cannot understand how still a big part of technologists are overlooking that fact. I think people are just disappointed in others for sticking with him.