Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ William Poaster ] on Thursday
>> On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:49:18 +0900, Rafael wrote:
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>> <snip>
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>>> "Ballmer" is a swear word?
>> Wash your mouth out! ;-)
>
> Or fix it...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballmer
>
> ,----[ Quote ] Ballmer's tendency to loudly and enthusiastically
> express himself is well known. A famous 1991 incident left his vocal
> cords requiring surgical repair after he screamed "Windows, Windows,
> Windows" continuously during a meeting in Japan. With the advent of
> Internetv ideo, such incidents have become increasingly infamous.' `----
This is an interesting article quote:
> On competition
>
> Ballmer is also known as a vocal critic of competing companies and
> their products. He has referred to the free Linux software system as
> a "[…] cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense
> to everything it touches."[7] and earlier described it as having "[…]
> characteristics of communism that people love so very, very much
> about it."[8]
Apparently anything that is competition is considered as cancer. It is
not a matter of "we work hard to produce better product", it is not
about freedom of choice unless it is Microsoft to the consumer.
> In 2004, he made headlines by claiming that the most
> common format of music on iPods is "stolen".[9] During an interview
> with Fortune magazine, he was asked whether he used an iPod, and
> replied, "No, I do not. Nor do my children. My children--in many
> dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at
> least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use
> Google, and you don't use an iPod."[10]
It sounds like Mr. Ballmer is not much of a father. What happened to
"don't do drugs", "abstain from promiscuous premarital behaviour", "use
your brain to decide what is best", etc.
> According to one former employee's headline-grabbing allegations,
> this competitive nature has manifested itself more violently. In
> 2005, Mark Lucovsky alleged in a sworn statement to a Washington
> state court that Ballmer became highly enraged upon hearing that
> Lucovsky was about to leave Microsoft for Google. Lucovsky said
> Ballmer threw a chair across the room and shouted: "Fucking Eric
> Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I
> have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking
> kill Google." Shortly after, he resumed trying to persuade Lucovsky
> to stay at Microsoft. Ballmer has described Lucovsky's account of the
> incident as a "gross exaggeration of what actually took place."[11]
It does not say well of Mr. Ballmer's character. "Hope a chair doesn't
hit you in the arse on the way out!"
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Cheers, Rafael
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