Nolan: maybe he has done some good US citizenship, I do not know. I do know that he and MicroSoft are HORRIBLE CORPORATE CITIZENS, by any measure. I do not know how anyone can refute this. The most typical response is, it's just business and money. The fact is, it is not just business, business sculpts who we are, as other things in life do as well. And no it is not jealously (at least on my part). I have read over 10 books on quality management. Unanimously, MSFT is a poor corporate citizen and, obviously, much of this has to do with Mr. Gates poor corporate citizenship.
Case in point: Look at the ridiculous bullshit (lies) MSFT created associated with the Java API. They keep trying to subvert it, Gates at a conference last year said Java was not that great of a language (resulting in resounding booes from the audience), etc., etc. This is what is called poor corporate citizenship. MSFT has created a corporate culture that makes lies and bullshit acceptable business practices and someone (since the government will not do it because MSFT owns a large hord of treasury bills) needs to stop them. Stop them or a quality-based foreign entity certainly will (just as the auto business saw their poor quality challenged by Japan). |
