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Standing up to the Playground Bully
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| What we are seeing is teacher starting to get heavy with the playground
| bully - one who, despite a decade of warnings, continues to abuse its
| monopoly position. What we are seeing is an institution that finally has both
| the will and means to place limits on what are acceptable business practices.
|
| Of course, forcing Microsoft to give people a choice of browsers when they
| start up Windows will make little difference to the that market, but that's
| not the point. The point is the punishment - a further reminder that
| Microsoft is under scrutiny, and that further serious financial sanctions are
| always an option. It's absolutely the *right* thing to do, because
| Microsoft's behaviour for the last two decades has been absolutely the
| *wrong* thing to do, and it is finally being called to account.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/06/standing-up-to-playground-bully.html
Justice Department Probes Big Tech Firm Hiring Practices
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| The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether big tech firms,
| including Google, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) broke antitrust
| law by possibly colluding on hiring policies, according to a report in the
| Washington Post. Apparently the companies may have agreed not to actively
| recruit employees away from each other, although details in the WP story and
| a follow up one in the NYT are scarce.
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http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-justice-department-looks-into-tech-industry-hiring/
Federal Antitrust Probe Targets Tech Giants, Sources Say
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/02/AR2009060203412.html?hpid=topnews
Related:
Bill Gates is a goblin
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| To a goblin, the rightful and true master of any object is the maker, not the
| purchaser. All goblin made objects are, in goblin eyes, rightfully theirs."
| "But it was bought --"
| "-- then they would consider it rented by the one who had paid the money..."
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http://kavehmz.blogspot.com/
Microsoft Memories
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| At some point in your presentation billg will say "that's the dumbest
| fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft." He looks like
| he means it. However, since you knew he was going to say this, you
| can't really let it faze you. Moreover, you can't afford to look
| fazed; remember: he's a bully.
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http://blog.tomevslin.com/2007/05/microsoft_memor.html
The Narcissistic CEO
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| The desire to change the system is a defining element of narcissism.
| And while it can be inspirational to work for someone like that,
| interacting with a narcissist CEO can be torture. Don't expect praise.
| Get used to hearing the word "I." And be able to take lots of harshly
| worded criticism.
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http://www.forbes.com/2006/08/28/business-basics-narcissist-ceos-cx_t...
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| My father, in his travels, has met Bill Gates. I don't think I'd be
| creating a problem for him now (as he recently retired) by saying that he
| was unimpressed. Apparently Gates was rude, he was distracted, and when
| he sat, he rocked back and forth in his chair, an action which reminded
| my Dad of people with dementia.
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http://www.linuxextremist.com/?p=12
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| In my BillG review meeting, the whole reporting hierarchy was there,
| along with their cousins, sisters, and aunts, and a person who came
| along from my team whose whole job during the meeting was to keep an
| accurate count of how many times Bill said the F word. The lower the
| f***-count, the better.
|
| [...]
|
| Four," announced the f*** counter, and everyone said, "wow, that's the
| lowest I can remember. Bill is getting mellow in his old age." He was,
| you know, 36.
|
| Later I had it explained to me. "Bill doesn't really want to review
| your spec, he just wants to make sure you've got it under control. His
| standard M.O. is to ask harder and harder questions until you admit that
| you don't know, and then he can yell at you for being unprepared. Nobody
| was really sure what happens if you answer the hardest question he can
| come up with because it's never happened before."
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http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html
Maybe it's just a language culture in the board...
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| At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the
| room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: "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."
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http://battellemedia.com/archives/001835.php
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| 'Got a call from Gary Perez (our OEM HP Acct Mgr) this morning. They
| are telling HP that they will NOT be part of this launch and that
| BillG has said "fxxk HP (all divisions) if they won't sign a
| Windows license."'
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http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/5000/PX05099.pdf
Here are recent examples where he 'buys' the press, which then praises him:
Bill Gates fund reports 12.8 pct PlanetOut stake
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| Bill Gates' investment fund Cascade Investment LLC reported in a regulatory
| filing on Friday that its holds a 12.8 percent stake in the common stock of
| online media company PlanetOut Inc.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKN1331033020070713?rpc=44
Bill Gates lends cash to buy newspapers
$350 million to MediaNews
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| Gates involvement has been very behind the scenes. In fact many of
| those involved in the deal didn'teven know he was one of the investors.
| It was carried out through the Gates Foundation, the world's largest
| philanthropy outfit.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33849
Gates sold 100,000 Univision shares-SEC filing
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| The foundation said it sold its remaining stake in Univision,
| which is in the process of being acquired by private investors,
| for an average of $35.34 per share in open market transactions.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsmlreuters.com:20070105:MTFH49951_2007-01-05_22-11-13_N05298823&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/yll88p
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