"DSK" wrote in message
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"Bob Crantz" wrote
Help me with my myopia. Apply what you have said to this case:
Microsoft.
Bill Gates is the richest man in the world. He's the CEO of Microsoft.

1. Does a union exist at Microsoft?

No, but could they really make a worse product if there was?

Software does crash a fair amount, most noticeably third party software in a
windows environment.



2. How many employees of Microsoft have become millionaires thanks to
Microsoft?

Lots and lots... due to a bizarre fluke of stock market history and a
large amount of corporate steamrollering

3. How many layoffs has Microsoft had?

Lots, actually.

Ballpark number? 1,000 10,000? 100,000?



4. How many jobs have Microsoft moved offshore?

Lots, actually (see #3 above)

Let's see a few references. Not jobs created offshore, but actual jobs moved
away.


5. How many people have become millionaires owning Microsoft stock?

Probably fewer than #2 above.

If the employees of microsoft became millionaires by stock option and
others, not working for microsoft also became millionaires by owning stock,
then wouldn't this number be greater than the people in #2?


6. Point out 3 examples of greed at Microsoft.

You mean other than every program they've ever released without
appropriate debugging?

Is greed really delivering a product that doesn't work in every environment?


GREED: "a selfish desire for more than one needs or deserves." Who
determines what Bill Gates needs or deserves? You or Bill Gates? I view
greed as desire for the unearned. Gates earned every penny. No one was
coerced into buying his product. Apple exists and sells computers with
operating systems.

Amen!



How about Gate's threats to bury several of his competitors? How about
his strong-arming every computer mf'r and/or vendor? How about his
attempts to eliminate function based industry standards and replace them
with arbitrary Bill-based standards? I could go on, but there are
probably several pro-MS types out there who are already mad enough at
me...

His competitors are also out to bury him. A large number of companies have
created industry standards. Just because we call paper tissues Kleenex is
that because the people at Kleenex were greedy?



Scout wrote:
Despite their non-union philosophy, Microsoft plans to step up their
outsourcing efforts, leaving hundreds, perhaps thousands of non-union
American workers jobless within the next year.

AFAIK they've already replaced lots of employees with "contractors" who
get about 1/2 the pay, that was the policy of the '90s. Now they are
trying to hype their corporate neighborliness while quietly moving as
much as possible of their operation to 3rd world countries where people
work for pennies.

DSK