Microsoft's Bill Gates: Caring, Ethical...NOT

[mandy]

Prisoner of Redmond:
Yet Another Way Paul Allen Isn’t Like You or Me

There are hundreds of Microsoft millionaires (and even a few Microsoft billionaires) in the suburbs of Seattle. For the most part, these are people who no longer work for Microsoft, but still own company shares. They worked very hard for years and are now reaping the rewards of that work combined with their good luck. Most of them are proud of their careers, but a few are secretly ashamed. Climb high enough in the organization, and it becomes clear that Microsoft’s success has not always been based on legal or ethical behavior...

full article: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060330.html

[rose]

I thoroughly enjoyed this article.