Re: Real-life biz experience

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [PEN-L] Real-life biz experience

I wrote:
> > In other
> > cases, he used shady
> > business practices (e.g., against Netscape) and used
> > the power of big biz to
> > make it bigger.

JKS:
> "Shady" is not the word. "Flat out illegal" is the
> word. He, or MS, was found liable for antitrust
> violations. If Judge Jackson hadn't screwed things up
> by talking out of school, Microsoftw ould have been
> broken up as part of the remedy.

yeah, but was it theft as normally defined?

FWIW, a lot of people who deal with autism think that Bill Gates may have a mild case of it, i.e., Asperger's Syndrome (though of course he hasn't been officially diagnosed, at least not publicly). This gives me a small bit of sympathy for him. It also explains why he was grossly arrogant and so socially inappropriate when testifying in court. (Dubya represents a case of someone who's grossly arrogant but socially appropriate.)

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