Roberts, too, is haunted and pained, whereas Portman and Owen drink and spit their lines with undiminished relish, often at speeds that Nichols can barely handle.

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Their dislike was almost Russian in the sense that the success of Gates pained Jobs (and vice versa), but consumers should be thankful that markets were open and free so that these two titans of capitalism could take each other on.

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"In the mid-90s people would rather burn their scalps with chemicals to straighten it to confirm with the Western standard of beauty than have natural hair and that pained me, " he says passionately.

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