[SATLUG] Pokes at Microsoft (off Topic)

[Daniel J. Givens]

tom weeks wrote:
> Sure.. No doubt there.. Bill Gates is a really swell guy.
> Bil's just a really really good capitalist. 
> In the same way that Stalin was a "really good" communist. ;)

Yeah, he really knows how to run a tax shelter AND help people out all over the
world AND sell more product while doing it, all at the same time.

Hehe. Business and ethics do not belong in the same sentence. I doubt Microsoft
really ever meant to be evil. I think they just did whatever it took to get to
where they are. I'm not saying that what they did was ethical, but it was
"right" in the business sense. I am beginning to understand it more now that I
am a partner in a business. I catch myself feeling slimy after talking to
clients from time to time. The really good capitalists can ignore that feeling.