I think you need to give credit where credit is due. Bill Gates is one of the geniuses of our time. You don't create a powerful company like Microsoft just by

I think you need to give credit where credit is due. Bill Gates is one of the geniuses of our time. You don't create a powerful company like Microsoft just by being lucky. This is the guy who brought personal computing to the masses. This is the guy who managed to grow his company into the behemoth that it is today. This is the guy who responded to the Internet threat brilliantly (well initially that is.). Dirty tricks are PARTS AND PARCEL of the world, especially in businesses. The techies are insulated from such behavior, which is why they are usually shocked at such behavior. People on the business side are used to such behavior. They deal with it. They counter back. Wall St revel in it. Govts use them all the time. This is society at its normal equilibrium. Google, being a techie wonderland, is trying to avoid this for as long as possible but trust me, WallSt will push their hands sooner or later. Paul Allen wouldn't have build Microsoft into the success that it is today. He just isn't as sly as Bill is.