In the midst of researching a paper I'm writing on Open Source movement, I came across Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's hilarious dancing bear video.

Now I see that he's quoted in legal documents from new Google employee Kai-Fu Lee saying he's going to 'F#$%ing kill Google,' after throwing a chair across the room:

Prior to joining Google, I set up a meeting on or about November 11, 2004 with Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer to discuss my planned departure....At some point in the conversation Mr. Ballmer said: "Just tell me it's not Google." I told him it was Google.

At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google." ....

Thanks to John Battelle for spreading the good word.

And this guy runs the biggest software company in the world? Think that billions of dollars and decisions affecting the global economic outlook are left to a bald dancing bear who throws chairs. Makes for a good media circus anyways...