Anyone paying attention knows that Jobs has always been a lousy guy.
Gates is more widely reviled, but except for some unpopular business practices, he does appear to be much more of a genuinely decent man.
He was more than just a lousy guy. He was a first rate asshole. Without Wozniak and technology created by Xerox, jobs would have been little more than a carnival barker. He probably wouldn’t have even been that the way he screwed over anyone he could.
“Gates is more widely reviled, but except for some unpopular business practices, he does appear to be much more of a genuinely decent man.”
Think again. There have been some adverse stories about his relationships with his ex-girlfriends, but those stories seem to have been purged by the search engines. In particular, there were news stories about a girlfriend at Microsoft Corp. about the same time Gates was dating Melissa French. Strange thing is how the search engines don’t seem to be able to find any references to that soured affair.
There was nothing particularly decent about the way Bill Gates conducted some of his other personal affairs. His father was a well connected and prosperous attorney in Democrat controlled Seattle. Nonetheless, Bill Gates steals the software programming from a dumpster and uses it to gain money from a contract for programming Seattle traffic lights. As the head of Microsoft Gates has continued this pattern of software theft and used the resulting financial gains to payoff hundreds of billions of dollars in court judgements and out of court settlements for Microsoft’s illegal copying of other people’s copyrighted and patented software.
After Microsoft was first started in Arizona with the assistance of a physician friend, Bill Gates got into trouble when he and his friend were arrested for trespassing and playing with some earth moving equipment in some childish playying around. Bill Gates also faced charges for not paying his traffic fines. Instead, he skipped out on his physician partner, denying his partner the future wealth to come from the success of Microsoft which Gates used his father’s influence to move from Arizona to Washington. The search engines used to have Bill Gate’s police booking photograph available.
“Gates is more widely reviled, but except for some unpopular business practices, he does appear to be much more of a genuinely decent man.”
You might think otherwise after reading this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Drive-Making-Microsoft-Empire/dp/0887306292