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...terms of social responsibility and relationships with other people," she says. "He's brilliant but still childlike. He can be a fun companion, but he can lack human empathy." "If we weren't so ruthless, we'd be making more creative software? We'd rather kill a competitor than grow the market?!?" Gates is pacing around his office, sarcastically repeating the charges against him. "Those are clear lies," he says coldly. "Who grew this market? We did. Who survived companies like IBM, 10 times our size, taking us on?" He ticks off the names of his rivals at Oracle...
...become that university's most famous modern dropout in order to start a software company, which they initially dubbed Micro-Soft (after considering the name Allen & Gates Inc.), to write versions of BASIC for the first personal computers. It was an intense relationship: Gates the workaholic code writer and competitor, Allen the dreamy visionary...
...founded in 1976 in a California garage with Steve Wozniak and then left in a bitter dispute 11 years ago. Apple has announced that it is buying Jobs' NeXT Software Inc. for $400 million and bringing Jobs himself in to help buttress the combined company against the depredations of competitor Microsoft...
...week, the highest scoring competitor is graced with the title Grand Savant, and wins prizes ranging from a television set to surround sound speakers to a trip for two to the Middle East...
Space Jam's biggest competitor on the paraphernalia front will be Disney's new 101 Dalmatians, which hits theaters this week. The movie has a more traditional, if no less disheartening, provenance: it is a blowsy John Hughes-produced remake of the gently witty 1961 Disney cartoon--a live-action remake that would have no reason to exist except that Disney knows the sight of 99 Dalmatian puppies will be irresistible to children and licensees alike. That would seem to be borne out by the fact that more than 130 companies are involved in various Dalmatians products and promotions...