But just as that ridiculous suit is burning itself out, particularly with the change of regimes in Washington, the enemies of Microsoft have launched another sneak attack. This man has it out for the company. The one they did promote to a high level, Peter Browne, became a millionaire and then paid the company back by suing the daylights out of them. Anyone who knows anything about the culture of the technology business knows that the claim of invidious discrimination is absurd. This is an industry where traditional indicators like social status, dress, education, national origin, and race, mean nothing.
Performance is everything.
You are hired, promoted, and paid according to your ability. But a non-discriminatory policy doesn t necessarily lead to egalitarian results, in the software industry or anywhere else. Nor should they. That s the way freedom works. But the socialists and central planners don t see it that way.