Microsoft gives software away like the white settlers gave pox-ridden blankets, guns and liquor to the natives, claiming, "Who doesn't want to be warm, protected and a little tight?" If you show up when they're dying, armed and drunk to offer an upgrade you're doing it the American Way. Forget karmic retribution, Gates and Stallman have probably done enough in this lifetime to deserve each other.

Written by an ex-softie (such as myself, but much more successful and a better writer to boot).

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