indeed. my father tought me, long time ago, that luck is oportunity + competence. he had the oportunity and seised everything he could. I respect him since he achieved his ultimate goal, something you can't say for half the list; good people, incredibly competent and full of good intentions that won't see their goals achieved in their lifetimes. not that leaving a legacy is a bad thing, not at all.
I'm try not to see things so black and white; if bill gates is rich enough so he can buy his redemption by charity, he's doing the right thing. but I would never say that he has done more harm than good. that's for the fanbois of concurrent os's game. I simply respect the best player.
without false moralisms, we know he tramped the market with ruthlesness, as did all the other big companies, from wal mart to unilever. they are big enough to set their own rules. They are the perfect metaphor for America and modern capitalism. The same that encourage people to go against the current big player by, i don't know, developing open-source. how many open source kids are "fighting the system"?
I guess that is a nice thing; you set a standard, you create a myth and some people will be compelled to defy it; competition, rasing the bar. As always, an economy in motion.
It's hard to create a line of tought coeherently in a forgein language, when one can't dispend all his work time on it. Since I'm brazilian and at work at the moment, I'm sorry.
