如今还有人在憎恨比尔盖茨吗？How Can Anyone Still Hate Bill Ga...
本文摘自:http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidcoursey/2011/11/03/how-can-anyone-still-hate-bill-gates/
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《财富(福布斯)》杂志的写一篇很好的关于比尔盖茨的文章，题目叫做How Can Anyone Still Hate Bill Gates? 如今还有人在憎恨比尔盖茨吗？
文章里有几句话说的非常的好。
你认为所有比尔盖茨的财富都是从人们那里抢来的吗？他已经退还了，带着热心，还给了世界上那些最贫困的人。
你认为Apple公司的所有财富都是从人们那里敲诈来的吗？Apple还拿着这些钱，史蒂夫乔布斯还拿着他的股份。
史蒂夫乔布斯配得上那些长篇累牍的赞誉。他是一个最伟大的技术人员，生意人，商人以及我们这一代人中最有魅力的领导人。他对于CEO们来说就像是橄榄球场上的George Best—一个超级明星。
然而，于此同时伴随着的却是对比尔盖茨诸多的不公平的抨击。特别是当乔布斯的新自传出版了后。比尔盖茨不需要更多的辩护，就像是史蒂夫乔布斯不需要更多的赞誉，但是，我要发起对这位伟人的最坚定的捍卫，只是因为我们有如此的事例做证。
盖茨如此的易遭人恨，就如同乔布斯如此的易招人爱。乔布斯标新立异，善于表演，极具天赋，而盖茨是木纳的，反技术革新的，他窃取别人的创意，自己拿来挣钱。
我不能说我是微软产品最着迷的粉丝。我相信乔布斯绝对是把产品运作的概念发挥到了极致。我喜爱我的iPhone，拿什么东西我都不换。我也喜爱 Winidows，主要是因为它优秀的可操作性，事实上，整个世界都是运行在Windows上。是比尔盖茨创造了这一切。微软的目标是让每个人的桌上都放 着个人电脑，感谢盖茨的领导力和远见，他的确做到了。我从来不赞成微软的业务模式，但是Apple公司也没有做得更好。一手大肆挥舞法律诉讼大棒，另一手 紧紧握住一个封闭的应用商店。
可是，我认为，盖茨应该成为最值得崇拜的人的最大的原因是他的敬业和谦虚。他是众所周知的阅读狂，极其努力的工作，取得的巨大成就的同时却一直怀着 一颗无比谦虚的心。没错，他一直是个巨人。当苹果在市值上超过了微软后，他仍然做出了很多成就。正如评论家Mike Arrington说起乔布斯和盖茨都是巨人时发表的观点：
比尔盖茨是微软的创始人和CEO，公司被他经营的市值达到令人瞠目的470亿美元。在他的领导下，微软四面出 击：DOS，Windows，Office，以及企业服务器软件。自从Steve Ballmer接手做CEO以来，公司的市值跌到了233亿。我相信Steve Ballmer是一个很聪明和很能干的人，但他不是一个巨人。
总之，我是他的大粉丝。而且永远都是。
当我读了这则新闻后，他在我心中的地位又升高了。
美国广播公司的新闻记者问盖茨关于乔布斯的传记中对他的讽刺的事。
下面是乔布斯说的话：
“盖茨缺乏想象力，发明不出任何新东西，所以我觉得做慈善事业更适合他，而不是搞技术。他只会不知羞耻地剽窃他人的创意。”
盖茨说这样回复：
如果你要问今天我们的世界为什么会变得更好，是因为有互联网，个人电脑，手机，这些信息沟通的方式已经变得如此普遍。在过 去的30年里，我们一起工作，他说了我很多好的地方，也说了我很多不好的东西。我是想说，在苹果，很多次，他都面对的是，他们的产品是如此的昂贵，以至于 根本无法在市场上立足。而我们却通过大量生产取胜，而且产品有各种的价格档位，我们有多个公司生产各种产品，这种事实让他难以接受。所以，在很多时候，他 会感到苦恼，他认为他是个好人，我们都是些坏家伙，你知道，这是可以理解的。我敬重史蒂夫。我们曾一起工作。我们相互激励，即使是做为竞争者。我一点都不 为这些烦恼。
如果你能拥有盖茨那么大能力，你也必须负起相等大的责任，因为，这个世界，在很多方面上，都是相互学习。
而现在，比尔盖茨又一次证实了自己的杰出。
感谢你，比尔，你为我们指明的前进的道路。
How Can Anyone Still Hate Bill Gates?
No one in technology draws as visceral a reaction from so many as William Henry Gates III, whom we know — and many hate — as the cofounder of Microsoft and as a result the world’s second-richest man. People love to hate Bill Gates and I don’t think most of it is fair, especially in light of more recent events.
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All that money you think Gates stole from you? He’s giving it back, with interest, to the world’s poorest.
The recent and much-too-soon passing of Steve Jobs and the worship that followed caused some thinking people to reassess their view of Bill Gates, often portrayed as Jobs’ arch-enemy, the Darth Vader of tech.
All that money you think Apple has overcharged people? Apple still has it and Steve got and kept his share.
It turns out that many of the “monopolistic” sins Bill was accused of attempting, Steve actually managed to pull off, maintaining total control of Apple platforms and pretty much anything that touches them.
Apple killed competitors at least as viciously as Microsoft. For example, one of Steve’s first actions when he returned to Apple was ending a deal under which a company called Power Computing made Mac-compatible PCs.
Steve also did an excellent job of putting the “cult” into Apple’s corporate culture.
Microsoft did many things that I wish it hadn’t, but the worst of the Microsoft predictions never came true. Indeed, Microsoft is in some areas becoming less powerful almost by the minute, simply because of changes in a marketplace it can no longer dominate.
There is a most interesting post on the Harvard Business Review blog entitled “Idolize Bill Gates, Not Steve Jobs.”
Yesterday, I read a note Gates wrote to members of the Harvard community. It speaks for itself:
I hope you will reflect on what you’ve done with your talent and energy. I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you work to address the world’s deepest inequities, on how well you treat people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.
Those are not the words of a leader of business. Those are the words of a leader of people. Those are the words of an idol.
As much as I love Apple, Inc, I would happily give up my iPhone to put food on the plates of starving children. Steve Jobs turned his company into a decade long leader in the truly new space of mobile computing. Bill Gates decided to eliminate malaria. Who do you think we should be putting up on a pedestal for our children to emulate?
Here at Forbes, read Matthew Herper’s excellent cover story on how Bill and Melinda Gates are changing the world — have already changed it — through vaccine research and deployment.
Read that story and tell me — honestly — that even if you’re sure Bill did something bad to you personally, you can’t summon up some forgiveness?