Sérgio Amadeu, president of Brazil's ITI and technology advisor to President Lula uses a drug dealer analogy for Microsoft's software products ("the first hit is free"). Shamefully, Microsoft sues Mr. Amadeu. Robert Scoble speaks out against his employer.

That takes integrity, Scoble. Good job.

Maybe Microsoft should point its lawyers in a different direction:

"Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade." [Bill Gates, 1998]