[ Thanks to Ville Oksanen
for this link. ]
“Most employees are disappointed with the government and Judge
Jackson,” says David Pritchard, a burly 17-year Microsoft veteran.
“We just don’t do anything illegal. We don’t. I know it sounds
wussy, but it hurts our feelings when we are accused of harming
consumers.”
“It is a maddening quandary for the software company’s wounded,
headstrong workforce. To a man and woman, they insist–eerily, in
the same words–that they want only to make people’s lives easier.
Money and power, they say earnestly, are secondary….”
“Microsoft workers “are frustrated and feel misunderstood that
the government and Judge Jackson claim that there is no
competition,” corporate spokesman Jim Cullinan says. “How can
anyone say Linux isn’t a competitor? Red Hat is worth more than GM.
They also find it ironic that Microsoft’s main detractors–Sun
Microsystems and Oracle–can call Microsoft a monopoly and then
claim we are irrelevant. You can’t have it both ways,
guys.“