Alleycat169 wrote: Gates and Balmer were devoid of any moral conscience about stealing from someone who had given them work. They released a cheaper, clunkier, uglier GUI that worked on cheap, foreign made beige boxes from Taiwan. [etc etc...] I'm certainly not disagreeing with anything that was said and a lot of it rings true but I think this topic is beginning to mutate into something that really shouldn't be in this particular forum. Maybe we should slow it down, shut it off before the mods step in?