I wholeheartedly disagree with your stance on the subject I believe there is ample evidence to prove the company under the supervision of the CEO in question was not only constructive but accurate Terry Semel has ran a company which has gave money to lobby groups which wish to alter the design of the internet to favor profit over ingenuity This would effectively change the measure for which code is ranked since it would also be determined by its purchased bandwidth priority over performance This would not only have an effect on those involved in the programming industry but change the way the internet works for the entire world Now from Wikipedia s own article on the subject an asshole is slang described as The word is mainly used as a profanity towards someone the speaker does not like or whose behavior is hurtful self centered or particularly abrasive Now selling out the free world wide accessible library and programming performance for profit is particularly self centered and hurtful behavior which influences the world Since this was done during his career this is where I summarized quite eloquently using words from the culture he himself propagates