Billionaire Bashing 100 sites on Internet devoted to hating Gates sfgate.com
Oops, looks like the Microsoft legal eagles are getting a little behind in their jobs. I will put up my usual pro forma protest that I don't particularly go in for this stuff, I've not checked any of the sites listed at the end of this article. I imagine there's staff at Microsoft that'll be doing that in due course. Meanwhile, a bit I agree with:
''To an extent, it's the classic haves vs. have-nots attitude that has existed since J.P. Morgan and Rockefeller were the nation's most successful businessmen,'' said Stanton McCandlish, program director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. As people become more dependent on computers in their business and personal lives -- from sending e- mail to filing taxes to helping a child with a homework assignment -- Gates is becoming an even bigger presence than earlier industrialists.
''People are understandably concerned that Microsoft may have undue influence on the way we compute in the future,'' McCandlish said.
So what am I, understandably concerned, Andy Grove-style paranoid, or just a Microsoft hater? Everyone's got a right to their opinion, I imagine I'm pretty low on the legal eagle hit list. I leave you with the Economist quote, As far as rationalism is concerned, digital citizens actually seem to spend rather more time in prayer than other people ("Oh Lord, deliver us from Windows ..."). Think they got one of Bill's emails too?
Cheers, Dan. |
