[Cialug] Mandriva - open letter to Steve Ballmer

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

Its really about ethics. Business is business and there are people that
will do *whatever* it takes to get the job done. Of that group of
people, there are some where ethics isn't considered.

Ethics is a fairly subjective thing and my experience is that the higher
the stakes the less ethics is an issue. There are a few companies that
have been successful by not sacrificing their ethics -but they are not
common.



On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 08:58 -0500, Nathan Stien wrote:
> On Nov 2, 2007 6:11 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/1/07, David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com> wrote:
> > > Nice work, Ballmer...
> >
> > Did Microsoft actually do something wrong?  The letter doesn't say.
> 
> Maybe he bribed Nigerian officials to get them to use government funds
> to buy these copies of Windows?  Seems like that would work.  After
> all, it's not the officials' money being spent, and they would get a
> nice kickback out of the deal.  But this is just speculation.
> 
> - Nathan
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