Femme wrote: >On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:43:37 -0700 >Sevatio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Check out this article. >> >>Linux Today: >>http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-04-30-018-26-PS-MS-LL >> >>Complete story: >>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25085.html >> >Those links' content make me want to be sick. The more I hear about M$ >and their tactics the more I desire their whole company to be dismantled >properly & Sold. > >sigh > >Femme > Well, they have x hundred billion per year in revenue and y hundred billion per year in expenses and they have never learned to control y because they haven't had to--they could always puff x. They could reduce or hide part of y by some adroit (and technically extralegal or legal) stock manipulations, but in reaity, they have a huge liability never reported on their statements in terms of employee stock options.
Everyone wants Microsoft to succeed because their retirement funds probably are large shareholders of Microsoft stock. But look at the facts; the level of administrative effort increases (a sure sign of corporate narcissism), and the legal chicanery increases, not for more plunder but only for status quo, and now they are throwing money at problems, as with Unisys and "wehavethewayout". It is handwriting on the wall for those who can read it. How long before the stockholders realize the index is overstated by a factor of 40 to 80 times? And will AOL follow them into the pit? But cash reserves are rather small, perhaps $30 billion tops, so when the market sours just a little, people won't know whats happening to Microsoft until it _has_ happened, and they will spend months thereafter in disbelief (and perhaps economic depression). I thought Microsoft was like IBM, could be hurt, could be convinced they _could_ lose, but couldn't be eliminated. It appears I was wrong. The IBM top execs were predacious salespeople in 1970-80, but they were not stock manipulators. Don't worry about the justice department. Don't worry about the legal manipulations or the laws they and others purchase. Just don't let the U S government bail them out, when their time comes. What they have done, not only with competition but with theft (of DRDOS) and stock deceptions, deserves no approbation. Remember Chrysler Corporation? The government should not be allowed to interfere in a free market, and certainly not to prop up a monopoly. Civileme >
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