NP Gates WAS RE: Nazi ideology

[Paul Mackin]

I didn't mean blindnesses had to do with Gates' crimes, or Hitler's
either. I was speaking of their tactical and strategic errors. Gates in
dealing with the Justice Department and the legal system.

			P.

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Doug Millison wrote:

> Paul Mackin said, "I don't suppose Hitler wanted to lose any more than Bill
> Gates wanted to be broken up. However great success can cause great
> blindnesses and unavoidable mistakes in judgement (it would seem)."
> 
> I don't think blindness or unavoidable mistakes have anything to do with
> Microsoft's crimes -- eyes wide open all the way. In the course of my work
> as a journalist, I had a chance to spend several hours with Bill Gates back
> in '92. He was pugnacious, belligerent, completely full of himself, and
> unabashedly proud of his goal to crush all competition; he was also filthy:
> unwashed hair flaked with dandruff, eyeglasses smudged and filmy. On
> another occasion, I spent about an hour talking with Steve Ballmer, Gates'
> No. 2 -- another bully. Ballmer is the one who apparently described, on
> network television, Microsoft's approach to doing business as B.O.G.U. --
> Bend Over, Grease Up.
> 
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