We did exactly what the order said to do. There was no freedom or flexibility," Gates said at a public event a month after the episode. "What did people say about that? How were we treated on that? Brutally, just brutally."
"I was not sitting there going, 'Ha, ha, I'll do what I want.' I was sitting there going, 'This is the worst thing that's ever happened to me. When can I get back to just focusing on developing software?' And then to have the press come out and say, you know, what it said, that felt bad."
That is such patent bullshit, that it would be laughable if it weren't such a pile of toxic waste. It is refuted by the rest of the excerpt.
The man's a lying sack, He's always been a lying sack, and he'll continue to be a lying sack until he (mercifully) dies.