It was stated at the end of the Bloomberg article that Bill Gates' position on the issue was misreported:
Earlier this week, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told Bloomberg Television he was “disappointed” by reports that he supports the U.S. government in this dispute, saying it doesn’t accurately reflect his opinion.
“That doesn’t state my view on this,” he said in an interview on “Bloomberg Go.” “The extreme view that government always gets everything, nobody supports that. Having the government be blind, people don’t support that.”
Sure, but then he's saying he was misrepresented by that?
So do the quoted questions and answers written on that page accurately represent what Gates said, because if they do, then although he might not be 'siding with the government', it seems he sees nothing problematic with the government making this sort of request, either in compelling Apple to produce a version of iOS that will allow for brute-forcing, or in this case setting any sort of precedent for what the government can ask companies to do via the All Writs Act.
Actually, if the quotes in that article are accurate, it seems that Gates doesn't understand the issue at all, specifically:
> Apple has access to the information. They’re just refusing to provide the access and the courts will tell them whether to provide the access or not
Which is not the case here. Apple doesn't have access to the information and they will need to build a customised and security-compromised version of iOS in order to allow the FBI to attempt to retrieve that information.
Earlier this week, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told Bloomberg Television he was “disappointed” by reports that he supports the U.S. government in this dispute, saying it doesn’t accurately reflect his opinion.
“That doesn’t state my view on this,” he said in an interview on “Bloomberg Go.” “The extreme view that government always gets everything, nobody supports that. Having the government be blind, people don’t support that.”