Bill Gates responds to snipes from Steve Jobs biography

Jobs claiming Gates was unimaginative and stealing ideas is sort of like the pot calling the kettle black. Steve Jobs never really had an original idea in his life. He basically took other people's ideas and then marketed and sold them as his own vision and his own brand, just like Bill Gates did. Only Gates was a tad more successful at it. I am not saying that is necessarily a bad thing - Thanks to both of them we have small powerful personal computers that wouldn't have existed otherwise. Neither one of them predicted the rise of the Internet or how much of a game-changer it would be, and both of them scrambled to adapt to it. But neither one of them was an innovator or an original thinker. Bill Gates DOS was a knockoff of the UNIX operating system. Steve Jobs Apple MacIntosh with it's GUI and mouse was a ripoff of the Xerox Alto. Both of these guys were more of promoters and mass marketers than computer geniuses.

Although I am an Apple fan for almost 30 years and I have cursed Microsoft products over the past 25 years (whenever it crashed), I have to admit that Bill's contribution (technology wise) to mankind is equally important. The proliferation of PC at such low cost enables billions of people to gain access to technology, knowledge, and empowered countless lives. I look forward to reading Bill Gate's biography one day.

Backstabbing is always cheap. "None of that bothers me at all" is the best response to a low-class act.

Let me just say that I have professionally worked with and professionally used UNIX, DOS/Windows, and MacIntosh operating systems. They all have their good points. And over the years they have all seemed to find their niche. My current work doesn't require a lot of computer time nowdays and I'm happy with that. It's somewhat tiring having to try and keep up with all the changes with that stuff. I am still an avid and strong computer user at home though and I prefer Windows, mainly because of the lower cost of hardware and software, and more importantly, most software now is written for Windows. There are just too many good apps that have no MacIntosh equivalent.

So who got Jobs billions did he selfishly give it to his friends and family unlike most richer billionaires like buffet and gates who have pledge to give alway over like 95% of their fortunes? Jobs was a hack.

Steve Jobs was not Amadeus Mozart! Would you people please stop worshiping him?

Steve Jobs created asian sweat shops where children are worked to the bone. Bill Gates created a charity that has saved an estimated 100,000 people from AIDS. Yeah, who is the bad guy now Steve? I'd say rest in peace, but you were a terrible SOB.

Jobs promised a more Orwellian computing experience with the introduction of the Macintosh, and he kept to that promise. Gates left Windows open with the freedom to use several different configurations of hardware from several hardware makers, which usually works. Since I've been building my own systems over the past 20 years, I appreciate how Gates let me choose my hardware options. My latest Intel I7 Extreme build clocking along at 4.5 ghz can't be touched by anything that Apple produces. Apple builds good equipment as long as it fits into what you need it for, but flexibility and upgrading is limited.

Bill Gates has class. The dead guy did not.

Bill Gates is a class act. I think this man is a good example for everyone. To have as much money and power as he has and be the positive person that he is year in and year out is an inspiration to me. God Bless Him!

Bill Gate is the gentle and smart man in USA.

As always Bill Gates took the high road. Classy guy!

Even in death Job's was a bit of an #$%$ lol

the reality is the i-fone was stolen from nokia by taiwanese manufacturers then sold to apple

Without Microsoft's softwear the Mac would be a paperweight!!

And what did Jobs invent? Oh yeah! overseas sweatshops..Never ever knew how to write computer code,right Steve? Great salesman.thats all......Oh wow,oh wow, oh wow,I fooled them for how long??? Suckers.......

Interesting... Bill has more decorum and respect then Amanpour. Then again, why am I surprised!?

Is the world really better today? That's a mighty assumption.

Bill Gates is a genius. This is practically like the Winklevoss twins accusing Mark Zuckerberg of stealing Facebook because they had a somewhat similar idea and didn't have the capacity to execute it.

The media has always been obsessed with Jobs/Apple and their amazing marketing machine. They keep things secret and make reporters feels "special" by allowing them to be present for the revealing of their "magical" devices. People talk about Jobs being innovative and Gates being a business guy, when in reality Jobs was the master marketer, who specialized in pretty packaging for exsiting technologies.

In contrast, Gates started Microsoft as a hard-core coder who truly saw the impact of technology on the future. Of course, some of the MS products have been less than stellar. Nevertheless, the focus of Microsoft is the fundamental development of new technology as indicated by their vast R&D efforts. These efforts cost money, and while people begrudge the "Microsoft tax", they will happily pay the 60% profit margin on an iPhone!

We are now stating to see the other differences between the two. Jobs was a petulant whiner who saw himself as better than everyone else, while Gates has devoted his time and wealth to helping the needy of the world.