Grey (Score 1)

Let me preface this by saying that I'm an avid Linux user. I have three observations. 1) MS software, in general, really blows. 2) This software has been forced upon us mainly by means of anti-competitive motions by Microsoft, including the filching of other people's IP, which is rather interesting in the face of recent remarks made by Gates himself on the subject, regardless of the fact that he no longer really holds the reigns of the company itself. 3) The Gates Foundation has and continues to do some wonderful things worldwide. I feel that Gates probably has a Machiavellian outlook, which I do not personally espouse. Now, the way I see it, #3 does not excuse #'s 1 or 2, and neither do #'s 1 or 2 ameliorate #3. It can be said simply that while Bill Gates' practices in the corporate realm in the guise of Microsoft have been immoral and borderline abhorrent to American Capitalism, his Foundation, on the other hand, has done Wonderful Things. The world is not black-and-white, on the contrary, just about everything falls in between.