Post my comment, in its entirety, since you improperly referenced it, or admit you were lying again. Or don't, I don't care, since you're lying either way, and your unwillingness to post the original comment is perfect proof.
I left a link to the entire comment, and either way, the rest of it is not relevent to this point.
Face it - MS did what you claim it would take for you to criticize them, and then you backtracked.
Again - I ask you - provide the gates and ballmer quotes that you've claimed exist over and over again.
"Or don't, I don't care, since you're lying either way, and your unwillingness to post the original comment is perfect proof."
The only thing I left out was your demand "and when their supporters primarily consist of raving mad lunatics who want to make all software free" which is 1) ridiculous because that's not something a MS supporter would ever do, so it's a silly demand and 2) because "raving mad lunatic" is subjective.
Meanwhile, all the objective demands you made in that quote were met.
"When the DNC starts endorsing their products like they do Linux and open source, when they start giving their software away to China and other communist governments for free like IBM and Red Hat do....When those things happen, I assure you I will speak out against them at every opportunity."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1481139/posts?page=67#67
The DNC demand is also dumb, because you based what you would do also on a red herring - setting a condition that you would crititicize MS based on something that a group totally unrelated to Microsoft says or does is another copout.
You might as well say you'll criticize Microsoft when the moon is proven to be made of cheese - a condition that will never happen.
The realistic criteria you set were all met. All.
http://www.detnews.com/2005/technology/0506/20/tech-219580.htm Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Chief Executive Steve Ballmer have made repeated trips to China in recent years, helping to strengthen the company's relationship with top Chinese leaders in a country where connections are often vital in securing deals. Microsoft's partner in the MSN China venture, Shanghai Alliance, is run by a son of former President Jiang Zemin.
As part of its marketing campaign, Microsoft has donated software to state-run China Telecom and China's State Economic and Trade Commission. It has pledged to invest or donate $10 million to China's primary education. And it has offered to provide free Windows operating systems to government officials in Beijing for three years in return for its becoming an exclusive software provider.