True enough - selflessness is a myth.
The "good" he is achieving is all based on billions of dollars that he "earned" from building monopolies. A monopoly that was well on its way to being broken up when dubya got elected and defunded the DOJ budget for the case. So that mountain of money he's sitting on is made up of money that could have been used by companies to hire more people, pay people better, or buy other goods and services had microsoft behaved according to the rules that many corporations abide by.
microsoft was a bellwether case for today's corporate environment. Most knew what microsoft had been up to and they saw bush cover their back. That helped stiffen the spine of the corporate scoundrels destroying our nation today. Few people had the audacity to pull what they pulled (Enron being one of the exceptions). European market fined them, but that was just a slap on the wrist compared to what could have happened.
That money he "earned" was from your back, your parents' back, your neighbor's back, etc. Those of us who were on "the inside" used to call the purchase of any computer hardware "the microsoft tax." Maybe you can figure out why if you look hard enough. Maybe you should do some research into ALL the hilarious shenanigans microsoft participated in during the 90s. If you knew and understood the stuff they did, you'd be more like me - with nothing but venom for microsoft.
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