There ' s a long fic on AO 3 with Victor as an artist and yuuri as his muse . It ' s amazing . <| sep |> Calling him an impeccable business man just means you support amoral actions and dismiss the consequences of those actions as the cost of doing business , with no moral consideration . Its callousness wrapped up in the illusion of progress . There are probably people much more ruthless and evil in the IT business now and back then , yet Bill Gates succeeded ahead of anyone else so I think it would be wrong to dismiss how good a businessman he really was . Acknowledging that does not mean you forgive past actions or ignore them . However look at the technology industry today still . ISP ' s are screwing over customers left and right . Big companies are actively fighting net neutrality . Patent trolling is happening at an ever increasing pace . Competition is being stiffled by patents , lobbying , lawsuits and other nonsense . Work conditions are often reported to be terrible in many major IT companies . An ever increasing amount of person specific information controlled , stored , sold , bought , leaked and so on . and all the other shit that happens in an industry that grew too fast and too big . I don ' t really think what Microsoft did back then will ever happen again . Alternatives are way too established and there is big focus on monopoly abuse , at least in the EU .