It's the twentieth year of the Mac, and it's the twentieth year of Jef Raskin snarking on Steve Jobs. That's right, Mr. Raskin, one of the computer interface pioneers behind the original Macintosh, strikes again in the UK's Guardian (via Slashdot).

[T]he Mac is now a mess. A third party manual (Pogue's The Missing Manual) is nearly 1,000 pages, and far from complete. Apple now does development by accretion, and there is only a little difference between using a Mac and a Windows machine.

Woah, hold on there with the blasphemy, bucko! Okay, SFist admits that the days of Windows 3.11 are thankfully long behind us, but we're not going to stand for somebody wandering around telling us that the premium we paid for our posse of Macs, largely for the user interface, was a waste of money!

But then Jef Raskin has been preaching this heresy of late even right here in Apple country as he is feted for his role in creating the Macintosh. It might have something to do with being fired by a certain Mr. Jobs back in the eighties. Steve will be joined by U2 at Apple's unveiling of something probably iPod related (all the better to rock out to when pondering third world economic development).