Fierce competitors Steve Jobs and Bill Gates may each rail against the other's companies and products... but deep down, there's love.
At D5, the tech conference conducted by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher for Dow Jones, we got a real treat: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, up on stage, just the two of them, chatting. No fisticuffs, no sniping, no violence. Just the opposite. These guys really have been friends for ages, having started as upstarts at the beginning of the personal computer era. And their dialog is... interesting, to say the least.
Perhaps most touching was Jobs quoting the Beatles' song "The Two of Us", in saying "You and I have memories, longer than the road that stretches out ahead..." (I leave it to you to decide which of the two is Lennon and which is McCartney.)
Thanks to Igor for pointing out how the picture closely resembled a certain set of commercials...
Comment by Rich Rosen — May 31, 2007 @ 3:08 pm
It's almost enough to make you want to go out and rent Pirates of Silicon Valley...
Comment by Rich Rosen — May 31, 2007 @ 11:39 pm