Jeanette wrote:
> Not only was he rude but he tried to make it seem I was the offensive
> one when I asked him a couple of civil but well directed questions.
I met him in a meeting that I presented for his sake. He attended on time
and stayed to the end (more than an hour). He amazed me because I thought
was an area of specialty of mine, he had obviously just read up and
absorbed key issues and asked very incisive and relevant questions.
I made one offhand remark (jokingly) during the meeting, and he stared me
down with a gaze I shall never forget. I shut up after that.
That was in 1992.
Also while I was at Microsoft he answered all of the emails I directed to
him. (There were only about 600 people when I got there and 2000 people
when I left.)
I have absolutely no problem with Bill Gates -- I think that he basically
"broke the bank" as far as the American system of business and wealth. I
mean, look at the amount of executive pay for Fortune 500 CEO's. Gates
and Ballmer are so far off the scale of anyone else, it almost makes the
other 499 CEO's seem *poor* by comparison! It's not really worth
bothering to be a CEO in some other company, because the payback will never
be anything close to Gates', if done by traditional means!
If you want to criticize something, I guess you could critize a "casino"
economy that makes one person so wealthy and so many others in debt and
bereft. But I don't see that Bill did anything but use the system to his
advantage. In fact, I wish it were as easy for others to follow the same
path. Especially now that he's leaving Microsoft, he shouldn't be the
focus of these diatribes (although ranking on him is infinite fun).
He no longer has anything to do with it all...private citizen and all that.
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