法新社 – 2011年10月31日 下午7:57
〈法新社華盛頓30日電〉
遭已過世的蘋果共同創辦人賈伯斯嚴詞批評的微軟公司創辦人比爾•蓋茲，今天接受廣播公司電視專訪，表示雙方在事業上的競爭是良性的。
Walter Isaacson 撰寫的賈伯斯授權傳記說蓋茲相對缺乏創新精神。長期與賈伯斯競爭的蓋茲受訪時被問及此事。
ABC告訴蓋茲，賈伯斯「說你『缺乏想像力，從未發明過任何東西，無恥剽竊他人想法』。這話非常嚴厲。你有何想法？」
蓋茲解釋：「嗯，你知道賈伯斯曾和我共事…創造出麥金塔電腦（Mac）。我們有更多人負責這項工作，為它撰寫關鍵程式。」
「所以，你知道，過去30年來我們一起工作，你知道，他曾經對我大加讚譽，也曾大肆批評。」
「我是說，他在蘋果曾遇到數次產品價格太高昂以至於無法在市場上生存的情形，而我們則以各式各樣的價格推出大量產品，還與多家公司合作，讓他覺得很棘手。」
「所以事實是，你知道，在各種時期，他覺得遭到圍剿，他覺得他是好人而我們是壞人，你知道，這是可以理解的。」
「你知道，我尊敬賈伯斯。我們曾一起工作。我們彼此激勵，即使在競爭時也是一樣。這點事情一點也不會讓我覺得困擾。」（譯者：中央社樂羽嘉）
Bill Gates responds to snipes from Steve Jobs biography
OCTOBER 31, 2011
During an interview with ABC news, Bill Gates responded to posthumous snipes
fromSteve Jobs in his recent biography.
Steve Jobs made quite a few pot shots at Microsoft and Bill Gates in his posthumously
publishedbiography by Walter Isaacson. And in the book, Bill Gates makes a few shots
back, but we in themedia are never happy without a fight. While interviewing Gates on
ABC News this Sunday,Christiane Amanpour prodded him with Jobs’s criticisms.
Gates responded very graciously.
Here’s the quote from Steve Jobs:
“Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why
I thinkhe’s more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology. He just
shamelessly rippedoff other people’s ideas.”
And here’s Bill’s response:
“When you think about why is the world better today, the Internet,
the personalcomputer, the phone, the way you can deal with information is just
so phenomenal…Over the course of the 30 years we worked together, he said
a lot of very nice thingsabout me and he said a lot of tough things. I mean,
he faced, several times at Apple,the fact that their products were so premium
priced that they literally might not stay inthe marketplace. So the fact that
we were succeeding with high volume products,including a range of prices,
because of the way we worked with multiple companies, it’stough. So the fact that
at various times, he felt beleaguered, he felt like he was the goodguy and we were
the bad guys, you know, very understandable. I respect Steve. Wegot to
work together. We spurred each other on, even as competitors.
None of that bothers me at all.”
Gates handled the question with a good amount of diplomacy, which he has consistently
done inrecent weeks, and years. It’s difficult to say if he’s actually bothered by the snipes
or not. The fullinterview is below. It also touches on issues like taxing the rich and
providing aid to poor countries.
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