Premise: Cynics'  He's playing dead . Anti-Microsoft analysts spin the same theory the other  Gates, having been pulled over by the cops for aggressive driving, is sliding into the passenger seat and giving the wheel to Ballmer, whose record is clean, so that the cops will go easy on the company.

Hypothesis: Gates' hands are dirty and Ballmer's hands aren't, so Microsoft won't get into as much trouble.
Relation: neutral