“Steve Jobs called long-time rival and Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates ‘unimaginative’ and not really a product person, according to a biography of the deceased Apple Inc chief executive,” Soyoung Kim and Poornima Gupta report for Reuters.
“‘Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he’s more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology,’ Jobs told author Walter Isaacson. ‘He just shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas,'” Kim and Gupta report. “‘He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger,’ Jobs added.”
Kim and Gupta report, “Gates, for his part, was slightly envious of Jobs’ mesmerizing effect in people but found the technology icon ‘weirdly flawed as a human being.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Everyone is weirdly flawed. That’s what a human being is.
Blatantly stealing someone else’s idea, bastardizing it by turning it upside down and inside-out, beating it repeatedly with an ugly stick, mercilessly foisting it upon the ignorant, the gullible, the tasteless, and the cheap; retarding global productivity for years while illegally abusing a wrongly-achieved monopoly to rake in tens of billions all the while pretending to be the father of a revolution and trying to buy your way into heaven with ill-gotten gains is certainly “weirdly flawed,” is it not, Billy Boy?
