For starters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Documents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Documents http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/ http://w

For starters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Documents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Documents http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/ They may not have been written by him, but they accurately describe and predict the observed behaviour of Microsoft w.r.t. Free Software under Gates' leadership. And that's just what MS did to Free Software. Under Gates, Microsoft were just as ruthless towards other competitors, seeking to undermine them in a number of ways (unfairly leveraging their monopoly position, dumping, sabotaging) rather than competing in the marketplace on the merits of their products. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt