03.31.11
It Takes Microsoft Managers to be Malicious
Paul Allen, photo by msprague
Summary: Traul Allen (a patent troll who co-founded Microsoft) exposes Bill Gates as pathologically evil
Microsoft is trying to portray Google as evil, as it has been trying for several years now (coordinating this behind the scenes and funding people to do so). But people who run Google are not as anti-social as those who founded and run Microsoft. Despite the PR factory, Gates is anti-social too and even Microsoft’s co-founder, Traul Allen, is a witness to evidence of this.
Cringely once told this story which demonstrate unbelievable lack of morals from Gates and Ballmer. Gates’ “give me all your money, give me more power” attitude is exposed in this bit of news right now:
Bill Gates schemed to take shares in Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT – News) from his co-founder during the early days of the software company following his partner’s treatment for cancer, according to a new memoir by the billionaire co-founder, Paul Allen.
The allegation is part of a critical portrait in the book of Mr. Gates, with whom Mr. Allen formed a friendship in grade school that evolved into one of the iconic partnerships of American business. The book, “Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-founder of Microsoft,” is scheduled to go on sale on April 17. A draft of the memoir was viewed by The Wall Street Journal. An excerpt of the book appeared on Vanity Fair’s website early Wednesday.
Thanks to the reader who dropped this pointer. It’s not new to us, but it ought to get more exposure because Gates is buying a lot of the press, which lies about him (in his favour, using PR placements). █
BenderBendingRodriguez said,
March 31, 2011 at 7:17 pm
Thankfully people responded accordingly on the original announcement at blogs.technet.com
No one buys into their story anymore, 80% of comments slam M$ for their actions, calling it hypocrisy etc.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz Reply:
March 31st, 2011 at 7:23 pm
Got a link?
BenderBendingRodriguez said,
March 31, 2011 at 7:40 pm
The original announcement from Brad Smith
http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2011/03/30/adding-our-voice-to-concerns-about-search-in-europe.aspx
Dr. Roy Schestowitz said,
April 1, 2011 at 9:32 am
Groklaw has just published a good response too:
BenderBendingRodriguez Reply:
April 1st, 2011 at 2:22 pm
Oh yes, read that one too. They practically sum up what is happening at Microsoft, “can’t compete, sue them”. I hope they won’t make much damage anymore… The funniest thing is the hypocrisy of all this… Microsoft may have invented something in the past but now they are unable to invent or compete on merit.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz Reply:
April 1st, 2011 at 2:47 pm
They invented an anticompetitive business model for extracting a payment from each PC sold.
TemporalBeing Reply:
April 4th, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Agreed. The only thing Bill Gates ever did invent was suing ones way out of contracts in ones own favor. That’s how MS got started with IBM & DOS – suing IBM for additional royalties when IBM/DOS systems sold better than expected, breaking their contract with IBM. It’s all Microsoft has ever really done in addition to their EEE philosophy.