They're smoking that most potent of drugs
Money. And Power.
In seemingly interminable amounts.
(And BTW, if you'll recall my sig from about 2-and-a-half years ago: "He's not my President". Still true now....)
jb4
"We continue to live in a world where all our know-how is locked into binary files in an unknown format. If our documents are our corporate memory, Microsoft still has us all condemned to Alzheimer's."
Simon Phipps, SUN Microsystems