Rick wrote:
> Nigel Feltham wrote:
>> Hadron wrote:
>>> Nigel Feltham writes:
>>>> Tim Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Complete list here:
>>>>>
>>>>> <http://www.gatesfoundation.org/grants/Pages/search.aspx>
>>>>
>>>> So what - running a criminal organisation is now OK if
>>>> you donate some of the proceeds to charity?
>>>>
>>>> I'm sure Al Capone donated to charity as well, does that
>>>> now make him one of the Good Guys?
>>>
>>> You really are a grade A idiot. Criminal organisation!?!?
>>> Take your meds and go back to bed you loonytunes you.
>>
>> So they haven't been prosecuted in the USA and Europe for
>> their criminal activities then and I've just imagined all
>> the fines they've had to pay for it in Europe?
>
> No, they haven't been prosecuted for criminal actions. They
> have been sued by the USDOJ for their civil illegal activity.
> I am not sure what you call it in Europe.
This is a company that the Minnesota Attorney General was quoted
as having little ethical boundaries:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-08-23-microsoft-letters.htm
[quote]
08/23/2001 - Updated 11:30 AM ET
Report: Microsoft funded 'grass roots' campaign
LOS ANGELES (AP) â Microsoft has been helping to fund a
letter-writing campaign to pressure state attorneys general to go
easy in their antitrust lawsuits against the software giant, the
Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. [...]
"It's sleazy," said Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch, whose
office received about 300 pro-Microsoft letters. "This is not a
company that appears to be bothered by ethical boundaries."
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