Jobs or Gates?

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Jobs by a mile

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Gates by 1.6 km.

@wolfgang59 said
Gates by 1.6 km.

I say Gates by 1.7 km. That is on a standard day at sea level with a temp of 70F (21C).

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In this world, whoever dies with the most toys and lives the longest wins.

Gates wins.

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It is a very difficult question to answer. We would need criteria about "contribution to industry"

Both men really did a lot in terms of marketing the computer as a machine for individuals.
Jobs certainly fed the vanity of his customers.
Gates certainly tricked a lot for personal gain (via the best of Microsoft).
Gates made more money, so if we take that as criterion he won.
Jobs brought a nearly lost company back into making BIG $$$.

Both were not the geniuses behind the systems. So I count Steve Wosniak higher in terms of technology development than either.

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The best you can say about Steve Jobs is that at least he wasn't as big a pirate and profiteer as Bill Gates still is. The damage Gates has done to the computer world in general and on-line safety in particular is impossible to overstate.

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Wonder away ... nobody cares.

@ponderable said
It is a very difficult question to answer. We would need criteria about "contribution to industry"

Indeed, what are the criteria, but also if not them then somebody else?

We no longer live in a world where one genius makes a
difference, that was a hundred yeras ago. Or perhaps 400.

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Not if you put it like that, no.

Bur I do this stuff for a living, and having to deal with the brokenness of Gatesware on a daily basis is exasperating.