The thing is, when ever critisizing Bill Gates for how he's achieved what he's achieved, they are in fact very bad means to a very good end, and I think it's worth remembering.
The money he's now putting into relieving povert and helping others develop around the world is impressive, wonderful, and hardly ever replicated. It's too bad awful things have been done along the way.
I'm not saying he shouldn't be critisized, but when talking about him in general terms we should talk about everything.
As for Microsoft itself, I think they mostly deserve every bit of negative attention they get. Too many times have they broken a million laws domineering everything they can and still been considered a reputable company. To many times have they brashly entered an industry, copied all their competitors, failed, lost billions of dollars, and still been considered geniuses. Too many times have they seemed to offer the olive branch only for us to feel their EEE policy (embrace, extend, extinguish). Oh well.
