[ale] OT: if this won't make you want to puke....

[Kilroy, Chris]

i think it is legitimate to hate MS because of anticompetitive business practices.  Our economy is not a true "free market".  The government manages aspects of it, and it works great.  In turn, though the government needs to enforce certain regulations on the market to allow competition.  MS has acted in its self interest (which is what companies are supposed to do) to the detriment of the marketplace.

That is a legitimate reason to hate MS.


I agree with you otherwise.


->-----Original Message-----
->From: Steven M. Jasmin [mailto:tektronik at bellsouth.net]
->Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 5:30 PM
->To: ale at ale.org
->Subject: RE: [ale] OT: if this won't make you want to puke....
->
->
->Thats why the call it a free market people...he deserves his 
->money and has
->earned it. If you dont like microsoft for being a huge 
->company with complete
->market share you might want to consider moving to Russia or some other
->communist/socialist country. I mean seriously for all of the 
->reasons to be
->pissed of at microsoft the fact that they are millionaires is 
->at the very
->bottom of the list. They earned it and deserve to reap the 
->beneifits of
->their work. Hence they call it a free market economy and Bill 
->Gates is one
->of the few people who has truly achieved the fabled "American 
->Dream" that
->everyone loves to harp on.....
->
->
->Be pissed of at Microsoft for releasing horrible programs, untested
->software, and security holes that you can drive aircraft 
->carriers through,
->but do not be pissed at them for achieving the american dream 
->for it is only
->your own personal jealousy that shines through in that insult.
->
->Spam me all you want but i firmly stand by my statement.
->
->Steven
->
->-----Original Message-----
->From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf 
->Of Geoffrey
->Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 12:22 PM
->To: ALE
->Subject: [ale] OT: if this won't make you want to puke....
->
->
->"Microsoft long had opposed calls from some shareholders to 
->use some of
->its cash hoard — now $43.4 billion — to pay a dividend. But 
->Microsoft's
->board unanimously decided Thursday to pay a dividend of 8 cents per
->share after the stock split, chief financial officer John 
->Connors said."
->.
->.
->"Microsoft chairman Bill Gates (news - web sites), who would own about
->1.2 billion shares after the stock split, would receive a dividend of
->$99.5 million."
->
->(Which is over 10% of the total dividend payout.)
->
->http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=528&e=1&cid=5
28&u=/ap/20030
117/ap_on_hi_te/earns_microsoft


--
Until later: Geoffrey           esoteric at 3times25.net


The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
Think about it...


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