Nobody seems to notice, that without Dennis Ritchie and
his coinventors, C would not exist, C++ perhaps neither and
we don't know if the rest of programming languages beside Assembler,Pascal, Modula would exist nowadays.

This would also mean, that Bill Gates would do some different business (carpets perhaps),
Apple would probably not exist.
All the stuff we do with Maemo5 here today would also probably vanish in a puff.