making a profit......
... or taking the pi$$. Choose your poison.
imho, If one cares more for financial reward than their own fellow human beings. it's taking the ....
Yes I know Bill has appeared to be somewhat altruistic in the past, in donating large sums of money to charity. But if this was done for the sake of anything other than Bill and Micro$ofts stage presence, he would have done so anonymously.
I can understand how the average casual computer user is misled by the marketing hype of the m$ PR machine. What I don't understand is how anyone who works in IT can view m$ as a warm, friendly, and genuinely helpful company, whose business practices are wholesome and sincere.