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in 1985 that Bill Gates, the very same Bill Gates that heads Microsoft, tried to get Apple to license the Mac OS to third party vendors. Not only did he try to get Apple to do so, he actually went out and lined up prospective licensees for Apple, going directly to the head of some of the biggest players in the computing industry at the time.


http://www.macobserver.com/columns/thisweek/2004/20040630.shtml

I googled it after reading a comment about it in an unrelated subject. He actually tried to get Apple to sort it's shit out before he went off and did it himself.
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What the hell are you talking about? How would licencing the OS "sort shit out"?
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I can't brain actual words, "sort shit out" was lazyspeak for "tried to get apple to blah blah blah before he blah blah blah"
Whoops I did it again. You fill in the blanks.
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Okay okay, I guess I meant Bill Gates tried to show Apple the way to the greater riches before he went off and made his own WIMP OS and did the same thing.
It's interesting.
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Don't forget the time MS threw Apple $150 million in 97.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-202143.html
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Well its always been a big difference in ethos between Jobs and Gates, Gates preferring licensing versus Job's walled garden, and its interesting you're insinuating that Bill Gates was the one that got it right, given that Apples market cap surpassed Microsoft in May this year. Not that Gates is probably worried, given that it all becomes a bit samey after the first ten or twenty billion (I'd imagine)...
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I didn't really mean to insinuate that Gates got it right, after all, Apple's approach is just so different - but I was having trouble expressing anything of sense that day. It was just a bit of a revelation I guess, because as the article states, Many tend to look at Mr. Gates as the root of all evil who has always been out to spread his inferior technology to all corners of the world, and to control various markets in the process (I took the "mac fans" bit out cos I don't wanna be labelled a mac fan).

I dunno, probably interesting to me cos I've been so apple-centric lately due to having to learn how to program an iPhone... And here I want to add two more (unrelated) observations:

• Objective-C is an impenetrable bitch of a language to learn when you have 2 weeks to do something.
• Not sure I'm too impressed that Apple have changed their terms back potentially allowing Flash developers to build iPhone apps.
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remember smiley, the technique itself is not creative but it enables the artist to be so