I used to hate it when Bill Gates was asked to speak at events like the opening of CES, because after he talked gibberish for 25 minutes even the journalists, who were, after all, paid to be detached and critical, applauded. I never did. Once he came down the carpet at another event, and someone offered to introduce me. I felt a surge of anger, and said, he would not thank me for what I might say to Bill, best not. I had spent the better part of a decade trying to not be introduced to Gates and that was before he was successful with Windows 2.1, but that’s another story. My partner met him for a beer once and…