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 From the official Bill Gates Wealth Clock web site |
Ex-lieutenant A former Microsoft executive, Robert Glaser now runs the company that
makes RealAudio, a leading Internet sound system. He admires Gates for his
vision, but sees him as "pretty relentless." "He's Darwinian," says Glaser. "He doesn't
look for win/win situations with others, but for ways to make others lose.
He takes no prisoners. Success is defined as flattening the competition,
not creating excellence." The Stop Gates Club Netscape, Oracle and Sun have publicly made thwarting Gates's "plan
for world domination" a holy crusade. They accuse him of trying to
leverage Microsoft's near-monopoly in desktop operating systems unfairly
(and perhaps illegally) with the goal of dominating everything from word
processing and spreadsheet applications to web browsers and content. "Where will it stop? They'll go on to bundle in content, their Microsoft
Network, financial transactions, travel services, everything. They have
a game plan to monopolize every market they touch," says Gary Reback,
the Silicon Valley antitrust lawyer representing Netscape and other Microsoft
competitors. Gates makes no apologies for integrating his own browser into Windows:
"Any operating system without a browser is going to be f---ing out
of business. Should we improve our product, or go out of business?"
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