Last week Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates went head to head on the same stage for the first time in more than 20 years and while most of the tech world was hoping for a total Jerry Springer-style brawl between the two, it just didn’t happen. Instead we got a big “you’re-great-no-you’re-great” love fest.

Alan Deutschman, author of The Second Coming of Steve Jobs and more recently Change or Die: The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Life, got a call from The Motley Fool’s Mac Greer to talk about the tussle that never was.

Watch the video here.