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He had aggressive business practices? That's what makes him evil? He wanted IE and Windows to win out over Netscape and Linux? Give me a break. That is as munda

• mixmastamyk 15y ago
  "Give me a break" == lazy. Being willfully ignorant of MS's numerous misdeeds is not an argument. And if you don't have all the facts available, perhaps you should refrain from commenting.
• vidarh 15y ago
  Aggressive isn't the problem. Illegal, immoral and anti-competitive was the problem.
  • shingen 15y ago
    I've yet to see a large company that wasn't illegal, immoral, or anti-competitive by the utopian-fairy-nerd standard. That standard is more immoral than anything Microsoft ever did. It requires companies to kill themselves once they achieve too great a level of success.
    • geebee 15y ago
      But there can still be an order of magnitude difference between what these large companies do. Just because they all fall short of a "utopian-fairy-nerd" standard doesn't mean they're all equally reprehensible! Reminds me of something pg wrote in "what happened to yahoo" http://paulgraham.com/yahoo.html http://paulgraham.com/yahoo.html "It's hard for anyone much younger than me to understand the fear Microsoft still inspired in 1995. Imagine a company with several times the power Google has now, but way meaner. It was perfectly reasonable to be afraid of them."
    • rbanffy 15y ago
      > the utopian-fairy-nerd standard. And this is how we got on the mess we are, when regard for what's right takes a back seat to how much money one can make. No. I won't play by these rules.