The author Randall Stross describes the day that Bill Gates came to visit NeXT to get a look at what his pal Steve Jobs had created. "Jobs let him sit in the lobby for a half hour while Jobs moved conspicuously about the building letting his visitor stew ... which was a way of NeXT telling Microsoft that it did not really need the software company's help."
Jobs wanted to play hard-to-get, but this strategy backfired badly. Later, when asked if Microsoft would develop software for the NeXT system, Gates replied: "Develop for it? I'll piss on it." Which he duly did - metaphorically.
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The author Randall Stross describes the day that Bill Gates came to visit NeXT to get a look at what his pal Steve Jobs had created. "Jobs let him sit in the lobby for a half hour while Jobs moved conspicuously about the building letting his visitor stew ... which was a way of NeXT telling Microsoft that it did not really need the software company's help."
Jobs wanted to play hard-to-get, but this strategy backfired badly. Later, when asked if Microsoft would develop software for the NeXT system, Gates replied: "Develop for it? I'll piss on it." Which he duly did - metaphorically.