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Bill Gates compared to Napoleon
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BILL GATES of Microsoft is an objectionable Napoleon figure whose employees scuttle around him like subservient children, according to the judge overseeing the company's anti-trust case.
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson told The New Yorker: “I think he has a Napoleonic concept of himself and his company, an arrogance that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses.” He said Microsoft executives “don't act like grown-ups”.
In November 1999, Judge Jackson ruled that Microsoft was an illegal monopoly which must be split into smaller companies. The split is due to take place on June 7. Microsoft is appealing against it.
The judge said: “If I were able to propose a remedy of my devising, I'd require Mr Gates to write a book report on the biography of Napoleon to make him realise the error of his ways.” He compared Microsoft's repeated claims of innocence to “the protestations of gangland killers”.
A spokesman for Microsoft's lawyers said Judge Jackson's comments could amount to proof of prejudice against the company.(SD-Agencies)
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