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"Responding to criticism that Steve Jobs levelled at him in his biography, Bill Gates said in an interview on ABC\u2019s \u201CThis Week\u201D that \u201Cnone of that bothers me at all\u201D and even termed Jobs\u2019 accusations \u201Cvery understandable\u201D.\r\n\r\nSteve Jobs was famously blunt and could be scathing in his critique. In the introduction to his biography, the author Walter Isaacson notes that the Apple co-founder was candid in his interviews with him and did not want the facts or his opinions obfuscated or sugar-coated in any way. It\u2019s not surprising, therefore, that his description of Bill Gates went like this:\r\nBill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he\u2019s more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology. He just shamelessly ripped off other people\u2019s ideas.\r\nBill Gates, however, was much less critical of Jobs in the interview. Whether because he did not want to speak ill of the man after his death or just because he\u2019s more diplomatic about his public discourses, the Microsoft co-founder said that Steve \u201Cdid a fantastic job\u201D and that he was glad that they got to work together.\r\nSteve Jobs did a fantastic job. When you think about why is the world better today, the Internet, the personal computer, the phone, the way you can deal with information is just so phenomenal.\r\n\r\nOver the course of the 30 years we worked together, you know, he said a lot of very nice things about me and he said a lot of tough things. We got to work together. We spurred each other on, even as competitors. None of that bothers me at all.\r\nPerhaps the former Microsoft leader is just more polite, after all, and really is unfazed by Jobs\u2019 criticism of him. He even tried to reason why Jobs might have felt that way about Gates, although this part does sound a little more condescending than he may have intended:\r\nHe faced, several times at Apple, the fact that their products were so premium priced that they literally might not stay in the marketplace. So the fact that we were succeeding with high volume products, you know, including a range of prices, because of the way we worked with multiple companies, it\u2019s tough.\r\n\r\nAnd so the fact that \u2026 at various times, he felt beleaguered, he felt like he was the good guy and we were the bad guys, you know, very understandable.\r\nIt seems that the revelations in Jobs\u2019 biography were neither new nor surprising for Gates and, as far as he\u2019s concerned, it is water under the bridge. The important fact, in our opinion, is that both Jobs and Gates have achieved amazing things in their respective lives, which themselves have been deeply intertwined. The world is a better place due to their contributions to it."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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