Given Microsoft's past performance regarding deregulation and monopolistic practices, he really should keep his mouth shut. Guess he still holds a grudge against Apple, particularly now that Apple has surpassed even his wildest dreams!
You took the words out of my mouth. The sheer hypocrisy is breathtaking from this guy.
The real problem is that tech companies are notoriously naive when it comes to dealing with the way “business” gets done in Washington and other temples of graft and pay-to-play centers of political influence.
As if that’s different from Silicon Valley...
Where do you think all the lobbyists for big tech come from? Where do you think EULAs got enforceability from? Lobbied lawmakers and authoritarians in the revolving door between industry and government.
How about the patent disaster? The patent office was forced to accept software patents, which, knowing their own job well enough, they originally refused to do (because they’re ludicrous). Silicon Valley lobbyists did their thing and the politicians forced the issue. Now we have endless patent trolls wasting resources. The intention of patents has been mutilated into the opposite: blocking innovation.
Any “notorious naivety” is in government, not tech. We see it every time one of these big shot tech CEOs is called to testify before government.
Yes many of you seem not to have read the article and are going off on a preprogrammed rant (the pic is a bit provocative I have to say). Bill Gates isn’t excluding Microsoft from companies who ‘deserve tough questioning’. In this case he’s aligning with Apple and the other main tech companies, and just saying ‘when you get this big that is inevitable’
Many of us know what he is doing and trying to get away with. At this point in his life, he is smart enough to play dumb... And try to fool the rest of the people.
For which Apple paid Xerox a license, unlike Microsoft who just cribbed Windows straight out of the Mac.
Nice try to paint your false equivalence narrative there but no cigar, buddy boy.
Looks like you agree with my comment, since Apple had to paid Xerox to use their GUI ideas. MS may have copied elements from Apple, but at the end, both copied from Xerox.
That's some nice twisted logic but hey, whatever floats your boat.
My point is that both, Apple and MS benefit from a Xerox innovation.
Definitely I still have some work to do with my English.
I think it was more that Apple saw the potential, which even Xerox did not. Apple did the right thing by paying to use the ideas. MS on the other hand, just waltzed in and copied it. There is a fundamental difference between the two.
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Where do you think all the lobbyists for big tech come from? Where do you think EULAs got enforceability from? Lobbied lawmakers and authoritarians in the revolving door between industry and government.
How about the patent disaster? The patent office was forced to accept software patents, which, knowing their own job well enough, they originally refused to do (because they’re ludicrous). Silicon Valley lobbyists did their thing and the politicians forced the issue. Now we have endless patent trolls wasting resources. The intention of patents has been mutilated into the opposite: blocking innovation.
Any “notorious naivety” is in government, not tech. We see it every time one of these big shot tech CEOs is called to testify before government.
There is a fundamental difference between the two.