Brian Masinick
Did you see how nervous Gates was? He was rocking back and forth and speaking in a soft, weak sounding voice, not the confident voice I’ve heard at other times.
I also saw another video where an older Gates referred to Steve Jobs as a chief wizard, where Gates only considered himself a junior wizard.
Both Gates and Jobs stretched the truth more than once in an attempt to get the component parts they needed and the financial backing to sell their early systems.
Some credit should be given to each of them for their persistence, but I’m sure glad that there have always been others to provide us with the choices we need, especially the people who have created the utilities, applications, network interfaces, audio and video capabilities, and more, all that we now take for granted on our computers and our phones.
By the way, Android-based phones use a Linux kernel and a custom interface based on an “Android” interface. Apple-based phones and equipment use freely developed FreeBSD software, add their own proprietary interface and offer a more expensive UNIX-like alternative with locked down, non free application software.
At least we have choices; some free, some commercial. Choice is good, even the choice between freedom and proprietary alternatives.
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Brian Masinick
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