Bill Gates plants (wetter) smooch on Steve Jobs Bill Gates can't say enough about his BFF, CEO of the Decade Steve Jobs. In a CNBC interview on Thursday, Gates offered his considered opinion that Jobs saved Apple from almost certain doom. When Jobs returned to Cupertino, Gates told CNBC, "Apple was in very tough shape. In fact, most likely it wasn't going to survive." But …
There is no hate between them, they have been helping each other out since the early days, abit of code for decimal points, a hardware driver here or there.
This so called hate is nothing but fanbois going crazy at each other (new reality show maybe) becuase they needed to expell there pent up rage from lack of sex (early nerds). But for some reason thats been passed down.
More than likely he saved Microsoft. Lets face it, if MS had let Apple go bust (and I really wish they had done) MS would have zero competition which would have led to the DoJ or the EU demanding MS break up their software company to promote competition in the market place.
Still, the world would be a better place without Apple.
"Still, the world would be a better place without Apple." Grow. Up. The world would be a better place without stupid flame bait like that!!! They are a business. They make products that some people like and buy. Get over it. You had the beginnings of an interesting point, but you ruined it by pointless trolling - don't pretend that it was anything BUT that, it's offensive to everyones intelligence, including your own. Why do you wish Apple had gone bust? Is it due to the legions (bit of a misnomer, that) of 'smug' Mac fanbois? You know what you sound like? An embittered Windows fanboi, which amazes me, it should be the other way round. Pathetic.
re: Bill's quote about stealing Xerox's TV. Two things. First, as someone that studied law at Harvard, you'd have thought that Bill would understand the notion that because some else had committed a crime, it doesn't mean it's ok to do it again - it just goes to show what a piece of work this guy is. If he'd have used that in a court anywhere in the world he'd have been laughed out, and no, it isn't precedent unless the other lot are caught and acquitted, which leads nicely too the second point. Apple PAID Xerox for the GUI and WIMP work that Xerox had arguably "stolen" from SRI and Doug Engelbart! Apple may have got the tech cheaply, but it's as if Xerox didn't want it and didn't know what to do with it. So in short, Bill, you did steal the GUI and WIMP concept for Windows, ignoring the facts doesn't make them less true. Of course, it's all moot now...
...*invited* them in! Nobody stole a damned thing. Xerox were infamous for not commercialising their PARC work.
It's not as if PARC invented the GUI either; they just created an early *implementation* of one. The concept had been around long before. (Since the 1960s in fact, when the mouse was invented.) Even the general public read pop-science mags like "New Scientist" and "Scientific American", both of which were covering the WIMP concept long before the Xerox PARC visit.
Technology doesn't exist in a vacuum.
re: Bill's quote about stealing Xerox's TV. Two things. First, as someone that studied law at Harvard, you'd have thought that Bill would understand the notion that because some else had committed a crime, it doesn't mean it's ok to do it again - it just goes to show what a piece of work this guy is.
i think the comment was meant more along the lines of "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" rather than "this is a legally watertight argument"...
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