Apple chief executive Steve Jobs and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates have committed to a rare joint appearance at the fifth anniversary of the The Wall Street Journal's 'D: All Things Digital' conference later this year. The two men, both seminal figures in the development of the personal computer, will jointly discuss the history and future of the digital revolution in an unrehearsed, unscripted, onstage conversation on May 30 with D co-producers Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.
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It's been done already...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHO8l-Bd1O4
All right, it's only a cartoon, but it's pretty funny...and it even has an uplifting message at the end! :-)
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(Voice-over guy starts...)This Tuesday to Thursday prepare to be amazed and electrified by a never-before seen battle ROYALE EXTREEEEME!!!!! Richard "St. Gnucius" Stallmann & Linus "GNOME Crusher" Torvalds take on Bill "MoneyBags" Gates and Steve "Drink the Kool-Aid" Jobs in a winner takes all CAGE-MATCH! Who will walk away? You've wanted it for years...the personification of ALL flamewars has finally found expression in flesh and BLOOD! ONLY at the Wall Street RUMBLE, May 29-31!(End voice-over)
Seriously, having Gates and Jobs on stage together in an unscripted forum does have potential. I would be very interested in any follow-ups to this story.
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"""Now if we could only get Richard "St. Gnucius" Stallmann & Linus Torvalds to appear in the same coference discussion with those two other guys, the discussion could get really interesting... ;-)"""
Maybe. But Richard would just refuse to talk to anyone until they agreed to use his terminology... and with the interesting interchange going on between the other three, few would notice or care. ;-)
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The original "I'm a Mac" and "I'm a PC" guys...