| "For some people..." I think there are a lot of people who share a similar perspective. For every Gates and Jobs, there are many other equally talented programmers and marketers who were not and will not be as lucky as these two. But if these other talented programmers and marketers conducted themselves in the manner of Gates and Jobs, would anyone forgive them? It's tempting to retort with some rhetorical rationale like "the ends justify the means," but then no one has any proof that behaving like Gates or Jobs has any causal link to the level of success they experienced. Microsoft and today's Apple are what they are. Some people love these companies' products. The word "cult" is sometimes used and people get quite defensive about their computer preferences, too. Effective marketing I guess. But not everyone has been so impressed. For people in the later group, there is little reason to celebrate Gates or Jobs, unless one is on the receiving end of some of their cash, whereby it can be put to beneficial use. |