Somebody once said that capital is amoral.
Well, there's amoral, and there's immoral. (I have never seen moral capital succeed for longer than a few years...)
Microsoft clearly belongs with the immoral capital. It has been build on the base of deceiving, and scr*wing the competition. (Among other things...) Typical vulture enterprising.
Do not mistake succeeding with being successful.
Late in his (business) life Gates seems to be worried about what posterity might think of him. That's why we have a Gates Foundation to join the likes of a Rockefeller Foundation, a Vanderbilt Foundation, etc.
They were not good people. Neither is Gates.
A good PR Firm can re-write history, and suppress what was not written. When people (like me) that followed closely his ascendance to fame and fortune pass away we will be left with the pristine Gates of the History books.
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