fkusumot on 25 December 2007
| Grey Acumen said: Why is it that through this thread, no one has actually mentioned that this is not Ethnicity, but Nationality? |
+1 to Grey Acumen for finally correcting that.
It's not unheard of for a product to be shunned because of the country of origin. A ways back, and even now in some places, it was looked down upon in America to own a foreign car (especially Japanese made).
That type of behavior aside, Microsoft's biggest image problem isn't that they're an American company, it's that they are viewed by many as the monopoly seeking Microsoft. One group that has this view is the many courts of law that have ruled against it in anti-competitive lawsuits brought by organizations like the EU.
