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After informing Gassée that Apple was buying NeXT, Amelio had what turned out to be an even more uncomfortable task: telling Bill Gates.
在通知加西蘋果要收購NeXT之后，阿梅里奧還有一個更難完成的任務：通知比爾·蓋茨。
"He went into orbit," Amelio recalled. Gates found it ridiculous, but perhaps not surprising, that Jobs had pulled off this coup.
“他勃然大怒?！卑⒚防飱W回憶說。喬布斯把這單生意做得這么漂亮，蓋茨覺得很滑稽，但是可能并不驚訝。
"Do you really think Steve Jobs has anything there?" Gates asked Amelio.
“你真的認為史蒂夫·喬布斯有什么真家伙嗎？”蓋茨問阿梅里奧，
"I know his technology, it's nothing but a warmed-over UNIX, and you'll never be able to make it work on your machines."
“我了解他的技術，那只是把Unix又熱了熱而已，而且你永遠無法把它用在你的機器上?！?/div>
Gates, like Jobs, had a way of working himself up, and he did so now:
蓋茨跟喬布斯一樣會越說情緒越激動，阿梅里奧回憶說，蓋茨這樣咆哮了兩三分鐘。
"Don't you understand that Steve doesn't know anything about technology?
“難道你不明白喬布斯根本不懂技術嗎？
He's just a super salesman. I can't believe you're making such a stupid decision...
他只是一個超級銷售員。我真無法相信你會作出這么愚蠢的決定……
He doesn't know anything about engineering, and 99% of what he says and thinks is wrong.
他根本不懂設計，他說的想的里面99%都是錯誤的。
What the hell are you buying that garbage for?"
你買那堆垃圾到底是為了什么？”
Years later, when I raised it with him, Gates did not recall being that upset.
多年以后，當我向蓋茨問起這件事，他已經不記得自己有那么沮喪了。
The purchase of NeXT, he argued, did not really give Apple a new operating system.
他認為收購NeXT沒有真正給蘋果帶來一個新的操作系統。
"Amelio paid a lot for NeXT, and let's be frank, the NeXT OS was never really used."
“阿梅里奧為NeXT支付了一大筆錢，咱們坦率說，NeXT OS系統從來就沒有真正使用過。”
