{"id":1687,"date":"2007-12-11T10:39:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T17:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2007-12-11T10:40:23","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T17:28:23","slug":"bill-gates-ticked-off-by-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1687","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Ticked Off By Blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"

From switched.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There is one sure fire way to make the normally quiet and geeky Bill Gates<\/a> a little peeved — question his company’s record of "capitalizing on the innovation of others." According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Todd Bishop, that’s exactly what a blogger, Jonathan Snook<\/a>, did at a small meeting between the online-citizen journalists of the tech world and the founder\/honcho of Microsoft<\/a> at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington.<\/p>\n

This line of questioning, which essentially accused Microsoft of copying other people’s inventions, sent the bespectacled founder into a tirade about how Microsoft does all the stupid things first, and that other companies, learning from Microsoft’s mistakes, are able to build perfect versions of a particular product or service (and subsequently get the credit for being innovators). <\/p>\n

Gates declared that what Microsoft does<\/a> is the baseline for the entire industry, and whatever it doesn’t do is the innovation. And by that definition everyone else is innovating. That’s a pretty innovative, if not a little sarcastic, save\/explanation.<\/p>\n

But seriously, Gates cites IPTV <\/a>and tablet computers as two areas in which Microsoft is leading the pack. "Is anyone else doing tablet computers?" he asks.<\/p>\n

We understand Gate’s being upset, and he makes some good points in his sarcastic rant about everyone borrowing from each other (with particular attention paid to Apple<\/a> of course). But we do have to question some of his claims.<\/p>\n

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