France has a surprisingly large number of streets named after Americans . There are streets named for Thomas Edison , George Gershwin , and Ben Franklin . But late plans to name a street after Steve Jobs has encountered some resistance . Specifically , resistance fromFrench Communists .
Developers recently convert an former train station in the city into a tech starting time - up brooder hollo the Halle Freyssinet . The facility will open next year with over 1,000 small businesses , and one of the surrounding street is set to be named Steve Jobs Road ( or repent Steve Jobs ) .
But the a mathematical group of local Communists opposes the design of the city manager , Jérôme Coumet ’s and hopes that the city will consider another historical tech figure like Ada Lovelace . Naming the street after Lovelace , they insist , is more in tune with the values of French society .
“ The elected representative Communists made a joint proposal for replace Steve Jobs with Ada Lovelace , a groundbreaker of IT , known for make the first computer program , ” the local far unexpended mathematical group saidin a statement .
The group cites Apple ’s revenue enhancement dodging in Europe as just one of the many cause they oppose bring up the street after Steve Jobs . They also claim that Apple mistreats its workers in China , claiming that they meet “ unequal ” and “ forced overtime . ”
“ Steve Jobs is not a sodding man , ” Mayor Coumet said , defended call the street for Jobs on his Twitter bill . “ But he has changed our daily lives by popularizing the computer , computer mouse and the smartphone . ”
The United States has yet to name a road for Steve Jobs , unless you count Petty Bastard Who Was Cruel To Almost Everybody And Died Of A for the most part Treatable Illness Because He Was Stubborn Boulevard . I reckon it ’s in Palo Alto somewhere .
[ Reuters ]
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