Bill Gates Speaks Out

neoform writes "The Seattle PI is running an interesting interview with Bill Gates." In the article Gates comments on Vista, Google, and a few other pertinent topics. In an amusing bit of related news, an anonymous reader let us know that CNET is also running an interview with Gates. In the CNET interview Gates gives a very interesting response to one of the interview questions. "CNET: So that would be the philosophical difference between Microsoft and what Google is up to at this point? Gates: Well, we don't know everything they are up to, but we do know their slogan and we disagree with that."

Comments

Is it an eeevil slogan?

[Kelson]

"Well, we don't know everything they are up to, but we do know their slogan and we disagree with that."

From context he's probably not referring to "Don't be evil" -- but seriously, who can turn down a sound bite (sound byte?) like that?

Re:Is it an eeevil slogan?

[Jason Scott]

If you do a Google Search for "Google's Slogan", all you get is "Don't be Evil". I don't think there's any other known slogan, except maybe "Sorry about that, but it's still in beta."

I'm going to assume this is a mistranscription or a bad editor; otherwise, this is the single greatest thing to come out of Bill Gates' mouth, ever.

Re:Is it an eeevil slogan?

[Fahrvergnuugen]

Quick... mod the parent down for being a spoil sport!

Re:Is it an eeevil slogan?

[xgamer04]

Gates: ... platformization ...

I pray to God every night that this does not become a widespread buzzword.

Re:Is it an eeevil slogan?

[kfg]

You say motto, I say slogan.
You say Do No Evil, I say I disagree with that. . .

No, wait, I meant. . .let me come in again.

KFG

Re:Is it an eeevil slogan?

[tolan-b]

Ok then, how about this one...

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Gates: Software in general, whether it was from Microsoft or somebody else, was not set up for an environment where all the computers were connected together. So it's not like there was some software that had this security capability and our software did not.
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Haw!

Re:Is it an eeevil slogan?

[squiggleslash]

Why? It's a good world. I intend to leverage it whenever I engineer new solutions!

Re:Is it an eeevil slogan?

[wo1verin3]

Index a mans fish and he can eat for a day...

Teach a man how to index fish and he doesn't need to keep using your software/service...

Or something like that...

It sounded better in my head.

Re:Is it an eeevil slogan?

[SavvyPlayer]

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a few hours.

Set him on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Re:Is it an eeevil slogan?

[vandelais]

SPIEGEL: When one puts the sentence "Bill Gates is the devil" into the Internet search engine Google, one gets thousands of hits. Does this bother you?

Gates: Slashdot runs a lot of duplicate stories.

Google's Slogan?

[Xeleema]

"I'm Feelin Lucky"
They were so cocky about it, they even put it on a button...those bastard!!

speech and video recognition?

[Tibor the Hun]

So, and I'm not trying to be a smartass, the same guys whose flagship product can't empty a recycle bin without seizing, are trying to be leaders in speech and video recognition?

Clippy AV: "Hello User/Bear/Shrub, I see you've brought a Hammer/Salmon/Exhaust Manifold. Would you like me to assist you with it?
[No] [Cancel]

Where's Napoleon?!

[kevcol]

Better news would have been the 'face off' with Napoleon Dynamite.

Richer?

[CSHARP123]

Q: You showed Office 12 here for the first time today. How do you think users are going to react when they see such a different look? Gates: As Office has gotten richer, .....

He meant to say as Office gor Bloated and I got Richer...

Gratuitous Celebrity CEO Theoretical

[LegendOfLink]

OK, we all know Gates is the biggest douchebag in Silicon Valley, but who would win in a fight: Larry Paige & Sergey Brin vs. Gates & Ballmer?

I'm fairly certain Paige would thoroughly pound Gates into the floor; but Ballmer is really freakin' scary. That one I'm not so sure of. I'm picturing Ballmer being able to take out both Paige and Brin at the same time.

Then again, Ballmer having Gates as a tag team partner would actually be a hinderence, so I'm thinking Paige and Brin would just barely be able to People's Elbow his ass into submission.

In other words

[saddino]

Well, we don't know everything they are up to, but we do know their slogan and we disagree with that.


char* slogan = "Don't Be Evil";
char* corporateSlogan;

if(corporateID == GOOGLE)
    corporateSlogan = slogan;
else if(corporateID == MICROSOFT)
    corporateSlogan = &(slogan[6]);

Re:In other words

[Anonymous Coward]

From what I've seen of Microsoft software, it'd be more like this:

char* slogan = "Don't Be Evil";
char* corporateSlogan;

if (corporateID == GOOGLE)
    corporateSlogan = slogan;
if (corporateID == MICROSOFT)
    corporateSlogan = &(slogan[23]);

Don't just be evil...

[aapold]

be lawful evil.