Dying Steve Jobs kept Bill Gates letter by his bed

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were frenemies, as
many know, but when Jobs died last fall, the
mutual respect between the two tech titans
was quite strong: By his bed, Jobs kept a
letter Gates had written the Apple co-
founder in his final months.
Gates said on his last visit with Jobs, in the
months before he died, "We spent literally
hours reminiscing and talking about the
future.” He made the remarks in an
interview with The Telegraph recently.
And despite their business battles over the
years, "There was no peace to make. We
were not at war. We made great products,
and competition was always a positive
thing. There was no (cause for)
forgiveness," said Gates, co-founder of
Microsoft.
After their meeting, he wrote Jobs a letter,
telling him "how he should feel great about
what he had done and the company he had
built. I wrote about his kids, whom I had got
to know.”
The relationship between Jobs and Gates
was detailed in Walter Isaacson's biography
of Jobs — with Jobs quoted as saying Gates
is "basically unimaginative" and would "be a
broader guy if he had dropped acid once or
gone off to an ashram when he was
younger." The biography was published
shortly after Jobs died in October.
Steve Jobs' wife, Laurene, called Gates after
the book came out, to let him know how
much his letter had meant to Jobs.
"She said; 'Look, this biography really
doesn’t paint a picture of the mutual respect
you had.’ And she said he’d appreciated my
letter and kept it by his bed," Gates said.