Politics is Smart Business
Today, Chris Mallon over at the Fool.com writes, “...failing to play the [political] game can have negative ramifications, something Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has learned well... Prior to 1998, neither the company nor its employees gave much in the way of political contributions, focusing instead on business. That changed drastically when the federal government...filed antitrust charges against the Windows maker for anti-competitive actions... Microsoft quickly became one of the largest political donors in the country, forking over more than $4 million in each of the last two election cycles...“
It may have taken MSFT a decade and a half to grok the difference between political insider and non-spectator but I think we've got it now.
-Commissioner Parnell
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