Reasons to Hate Bill Gates and refuse the use Microsoft OS

[libertylover]

Yeah there are a lot of Liberal Commie I hate successful corporation flawed logic arguments floating out there against MS and Gates.  But on the flip side there are legitimate reasons to not want to do business with the guy. 

I would like some assistance in compiling a list of reasons to not want to do business with Bill Gates.  Please in the interest of letting other people contribute only list one reason per post.  It will make it easier for people to add to the reason or argue against it.

1.  Instead of funding a stem cell research facility voluntarily.  Gates uses his money to fund a political campaign to put taxpayers on the hook for stem cell research funding in California.  The campaign gave voters the false impression that they were voting on making stem cell research legal.

[Cognitive Dissident]

Overboard anti-piracy measures (OS X doesn't even require serial numbers, etc., let alone require "validation.")

[Turd Ferguson]

His breath smells like tuna-fish.

So I've heard.

[Zhwazi]

Intellectual property and software patents and bloated, complicated software.

[Riddler]

bad hairdo

[Fred]

No reasons justify not using this brilliant product!

[Brooklyn Red Leg]

Internet Explorer sucks....

[Fred]

but firefox rocks!

[BobRobertson]

Pompous ass whose decided that spending more money on govt education will solve the problems caused by govt education.

Wrote that "pay me now" letter to people who were using Microsoft Basic the same way that Gates had used Basic in the first place. His excuse, that he stole it first fair and square. Exactly the way Apple sued Microsoft for doing something Steve Jobs took away from Xerox.

For copying the BSD TCP/IP stack bodily into Win95, then calling Linux a "cancer". Oh, but he just LOVES BSD, which he can cherry-pick from at will. What he hates is the GPL and anything licensed with it, which prevents that cherry-picking.

His foundation which, while proclaiming that malaria is a scourge, then has never pointed out that DDT works great against mosquitos.

Unlike some, I can't fault his business sense. He's a master marketer, but there is still no way he can force me to buy his sub-standard products. For me to display real hatred, you'd have to name a bureaucrat or politician.

[libertylover]

No reasons justify not using this brilliant product!

So if Hitler had developed Windows you would still buy it?  There has to be a level at which you would refuse to purchase a person's product based on their conduct.

[Turd Ferguson]

No reasons justify not using this brilliant product!

So if Hitler had developed Windows you would still buy it?  There has to be a level at which you would refuse to purchase a person's product based on their conduct.

The Nazi's developed the Volkswagen and I have no problem driving one. I dont have one anymore, but thats only cuz they look like every other car now.

[Fred]

No reasons justify not using this brilliant product!

So if Hitler had developed Windows you would still buy it?  There has to be a level at which you would refuse to purchase a person's product based on their conduct.

I just meant if it weren't for microsoft I don't think I'd have ever have used a computer.  Seemed to be about the only choice for a long time. 

And, those hitler arguments sorta shut down my brain!     

[blackie]

No reasons justify not using this brilliant product!

So if Hitler had developed Windows you would still buy it?  There has to be a level at which you would refuse to purchase a person's product based on their conduct.

Are we talking about using a Microsoft OS or buying it?

Using a Microsoft OS is required for a huge number of jobs.

[libertylover]

No reasons justify not using this brilliant product!

So if Hitler had developed Windows you would still buy it?  There has to be a level at which you would refuse to purchase a person's product based on their conduct.

I just meant if it weren't for microsoft I don't think I'd have ever have used a computer.  Seemed to be about the only choice for a long time. 

And, those hitler arguments sorta shut down my brain!     

Yeah, agree hitler is overused. 

The point I wanted to make is no mater how good a product happens to be.  At what point would the owner of that product's conduct make you unwilling to do business with them?  Would using unethical business practices do it?  Or would the developer have to be a baby eating cannibal who has enslaved a country?

[Fred]

I'd have to take that on a case by case basis depending on my knowledge of their behavior and what other options were available I guess...