The 'Microsoft Commandments'

Summary: Sociopathy, incompetence and intolerance of the rule of law, as demonstrated by Microsoft's top managers

“This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.”

--Scott Culp, Microsoft's security program manager

“We really haven't done everything we could to protect our customers. Our products just aren't engineered for security.”

--Brian Valentine, Microsoft

“We haven't figured out how to be lower priced than Linux.”

--Steve Ballmer

“Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.”

--Steve Ballmer

“We need to slaughter Novell before they get stronger.”

--Jim Allchin

“Like a lot of products that are free, you get a loyal following even though it's small. I've never had a customer mention Linux to me.”

--Bill Gates

“I don't know what a monopoly is until someone tells me.”

--Steve Ballmer

“There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises.”

--Bill Gates

"Fuck! It took you a year to figure that out!"

--Bill Gates

“The new TV infrastructure will be about very targeted advertising.”

--Bill Gates

"That’s the dumbest fucking idea I’ve heard since I’ve been at Microsoft."

--Bill Gates

"The last thing this company needs is another fucking [computer] language."

--Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft