Apple and Microsoft have battled it out on many fronts over the years, but now there's a new one: the battle of the lesser-known cofounders.
In his keynote at the Embedded Systems Conference this morning, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak kicked off with a shot at Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen's recent patent infringement suit against Apple and a bunch of other companies.
As The Register reports, Woz had tickets to see Allen speak at the Computer History Museum last Monday, but he blew it off and went to dinner with some friends instead because he "remembered he's suing all these companies like Apple and Google – but he's not suing Microsoft – because he bought all these patents." He also said that a lot of patents aren't worth much and "any fifth-grade could come up with the same approach."
Wozniak later said that Allen should be "investing in companies that are doing something, making products, actually making a new future for the world," rather than "get in bed with the lawyers to make my money."