Evil Genius ? Aren't we talking about computers here? I love the way people are never responsible for their actions. If you don't buy the stuff, If you keep below the speed limit, If you switch to another channel, If you get off your fat ass and vote for some one else. Nup, It's "tha man's" fault. Marketing and Sales is about getting people to believe something they want to believe. Just keep below the speed limit and you won't get burned.
You say that as if his company acted in an above board fashion. As if they didn't sell an Operating System that they didn't own (hadn't even made any moves to but yet) which was itself based on code that infringed on another OS. Then proceeded over the next decades to use the market power they had gained to goad the companies they worked with to bundle copies of the OS with every system they sold, to use monopoly power to expand their reach into other software and expand their profits. He is/was the master of dirty business.
