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> Yes, Microsoft was engaged in very anti-competitive illegal business practices Fixed that for you. It's just business applies to legal business, not illegal
by gnaritas 12y ago
> Yes, Microsoft was engaged in very anti-competitive illegal business practices
Fixed that for you. It's just business applies to legal business, not illegal anti-competitive tactics. Competition is beating the other guy, not preventing him from being able to play by locking him off the field. So no, it doesn't play a factor here, not at all.
- mercer 12y agoWhile I'm not saying that Bill Gates is or was 'nice', I take issue with the thought that something that is illegal is by definition something that makes a person 'not nice'. I've known my share of people who were engaged in very illegal practices and still, by my moral standards, nice, and even good. Conflating morality with legality feels a bit easy to me. It's just not always true.
- gnaritas 12y agoI'm not conflating them, what Bill did was both illegal and unethical. They are both true; sabotage is never the ethical choice and preventing your competitors from being able to play by strong arming retailers into selling only your product is unethical and illegal sabotage.