Bill Gates on Vista and Apple's 'Lying' Ads (Mac OS X vs Vista)

[Andy Lee]

On Feb 2, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
> And I don't know why [Apple is] acting like it’s superior. I don't  
> even get it. What are they trying to say? Does honesty matter in  
> these things, or if you're really cool, that means you get to be a  
> lying person whenever you feel like it? There's not even the  
> slightest shred of truth to it.

Depressing.  I saw Gates on The Daily Show and thought he was  
personable enough, though I assumed partly due to PR training and  
practice like plenty of other people in the public eye.  He might not  
be my kind of guy in all ways, but he didn't really bother me.  Now,  
assuming the quote is accurate, I have to put him squarely in the  
horse's ass bucket.  He knows damn well what Apple is saying and how  
much truth is in it.

He's now on the same list where I put Rosie and Mel and Kramer --  
people I had placed on a personal taste spectrum but not a moral  
disgust spectrum, until they said something revealing.

I wonder if that was *the* Andy Stone who posted in the comments  
section of the article.

--Andy