Jobs on Bill Gates
By Techgirl

Apple supremo Steve Jobs always played hard ball professionally and in his personal life.  On Oct 18, 2011, I had reported on how Microsoft founder Bill Gates flew down to attend Steve Job’s funeral and pay his respects.

And now it turns out that Steve Jobs had a very low opinion of Bill Gates.  Huffington Post has extracts from Jobs authorized biography

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Bill Gates would be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger."

"Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he's more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology. He just shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas."
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If this biography had been published before Jobs death, perhaps there would been one less tech tycoon at his funeral.

(Techgoss had published the following on Oct 18, 2011)

Titans farewell Jobs
By Techgirl

It seems that even as their companies were in cut throat competition for market share (and there was a time when Microsoft did everything to crush Apple), in real life many of them are close friends.

NYT scooped details of Apple boss and tech icon Steve Jobs funeral

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Bill Clinton; Larry Ellison, Oracle’s chief executive; Bill Gates, Microsoft’s co-founder; and Michael Dell, Dell’s chief executive, were among the guests who attended a private service at Stanford’s Memorial Church, according to a person with knowledge of the event. Bono, the U2 lead singer, and the folk singer Joan Baez, who once dated Mr. Jobs, were also there, as was John Lasseter, who worked with Mr. Jobs at Pixar, the animation studio that Mr. Jobs developed and later sold to Walt Disney.

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Techgoss note:  Techgirl is a senior Tech journalist who reports on the IT, KPO and KPO Sectors for a leading media house.  In her spare time, she dabbles in satire in her blog techgirltalk.blogspot.com.  Techgirl has been ejected from Twitter for satirizing an Indian Minister.  Her satire blog has links to her Times of India interview detailing her being kicked out of Twitter, and then being invited back.