An organisation as high profile as the Gates' Microsoft Corporation is bound to have its every move looked at suspiciously. It's very easy to be critical with the help of the media that feeds on rumour and speculation.
And certainly Microsoft has made mistakes and been caught out. But who hasn't?
However, try to take another view.
I doubt that I would be best pleased to learn that a British National Daily Newspaper had hundreds (or was it thousands?) of copies of unpaid-for unlicensed software on its worksations. Software that was my intellectual property. And I would also want the development costs of similar products to be safeguarded in the future. That means making as much money as I could from the market.
The world has made amazing strides in an astonishingly short space of time because of the IT industry. And Microsoft is a major player at the public interface as well behind the scenes in industry and commerce. All these companies are in the business to make money.
Oh, and by the way, can anyone remind me of how much Microsoft has contributed to the Charities and needy causes of the world in, say, the last couple of years?