Gate's foot in mouth.

[swestrup]

There's a telling comment in this 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."

Google's slogan, of course, is "Don't Do Evil."

Even if Gates was instead referring to Google's mission statement, which is:

To make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

It would be bad enough.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

In the previous paragraph in the interview, Gates had just finished
saying:
"In fact, they have this slogan that they are going to organize the world's information. Our slogan is that we are going to give people tools to let them organize the world's information. It's a slightly different approach, based on the platformization of all of our capabilities and not thinking of ourselves as the organizer."
Do you think that Gates might have been referring to this as Google's
slogan?
-Jim

[swestrup]

Maybe, but if its what he meant, then he was misquoting Google's mission statement.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Ah! I love it when the truth slips out.