[ThrowawayR2]

> But very few people would go to the lengths that Ballmer was prepared to go to.

Larry Ellison? Scott McNealy? I'm sure I could think of others if I had the time. Ballmer was merely the most visible because MS was at the top of the food chain at the time.

[jacquesm]

Good point about Ellison and McNealy, Jobs figures in there somewhere as well given how he treated his business partner.