"The irony," told us a reader who had worked for Microsoft, is that Microsoft is totally hypocritical when it comes to tolerance. In his own words, based on what he saw at Microsoft: "People think I’m joking when I say that Microsoft is ironically full of weird hypocritical nationalists. I.e. people who take an undue amount of pride in their country that dare not question the merits or intentions of the government entities using their products while simultaneously taking great pride in working and living for a company notorious for skirting taxes and anti-trust laws established by the very same government.