Bill and Steve Cage Fight

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6707317.stm

nah only kidding. It was the first public conversation between the two in decades. Sounds like it may have been interesting. Anyone find any videos?

Pah. Bill and Steve who??

*clicky*.

cool, I shall watch after lunch.

Here's the actual link! For some reason they've decided to split it into parts.

that video was crap GfK.

I know. That's why I posted it.

Here's the real video of Bill and Steve meeting.

Here are the videos for the whole interview. I haven't finished watching them, but I was expecting more confrontation between them:

http://news.worldofapple.com/archives/2007/05/31/bill-gates-and-steve-jobs-share-stage-at-all-things-digital-conference/

Oddball: haha good one.

I watched one of the real ones so far. I gotta say that Bill seems a bit geeky but nice and Steve is a bit too smart, cheesy and a bit rude really.

I've been reading a book about Steve (iCon) and his history. He was a bit of a bad boy, but has got better recently. I didn't like Apple forcing C&G to close their doors after they took the code for iTunes from them.

Aren't they the ones with the excellent adventure?

They didn't. For starters you cannot force someone to go bankrupt, companies go bankrupt of their own accord, because nobody wants to by their products. Second of all, Casady & Greene did not own SoundJam or the code for it, so Apple could not possibly have taken it from them.

I'm thinking the book you're reading isn't that well researched.

baaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!11

They sneakily bought the rights from them by telling C&G that if they didn't sell SoundJam to them, they would destroy their business by creating their own software to compete against it. Not exactly robbing them of their code, but not exactly ethical either. What would we say if Apple suddenly done the same to Blitz Research?

They already owned the rights to them, by virtue of hiring the SoundJam developers. C&G where then asked by Jeff Robins to cease distribution of SoundJam, which they did. Apple then gave C&G a bag of money as compensation (which they where under no obligation to do).

C&G only had distribution rights to SoundJam, not the code. SoundJam was chiefly written by Jeff Robbins who by then had returned to working for Apple after a few years indie.

What would I say if Mark was hired by Apple, given unlimited budget and resources to work on BlitzMAX, and release a newer and vastly improved version of iBlitz as an integral part of MacOS X Pussycat? "Good on ya'" I reckon.

Evil ;)

Dabz

P.S. The president of that thing that was in the link about the new crap thing in a box thing... What a hairdo, he seriously needs a trip to the barbers (minus his mams mixing bowl)