Evil Impersonated (Score 2, Interesting)

It always strikes me whenever I read any post on the internet that relates in any way to Bill Gates of Micrsosoft, that they are always depicted as the quintessence of evil on earth. It even amazes me when i read comments like "The only real problem with Microsoft is that they have a dumb CEO". I mean, come on. How many other companies have you heard of, that went from being run in a small garage by a bunch of college droputs to being the number one Software Company in the world, whose founders were both in top ten list of Individual wealth before they were 50 years old, and did this in less than 20 years of operation. Excuse me, but if that could be accomplished by dumb people, america would be busting with multibillionaires. My point is, you can say whatever you want about the quality of their software or their business practices. But you cant deny, that Microsoft almost singlehandedly propelled the informatics business to the point where it is today (that is, in almost every minute, everyday of your life), and they managed to do this while at the sametime implementing a ridiculously succesful business model that allowed them to force their way to the top on every market that they have ventured in. If you consider BG and MCSFT your mortal enemies, you should at least be well informed, and recognize that no one gets to where they are by chance. Keep one thing in mind, we are talking business here, and businesses are measured only by their financial success. IBM has proved that it has the muscle to be measured with MCSFT in this field, and its up to GOOGLE to prove that theyre more than an overvalued bunch of new ideas with no real world value once the dust settles.