amicus_curious wrote:
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> Well, I can't really tell if you are intelligent or not. You make
> nonsensical remarks and occasionally say something interesting. You
> seem to suggest that paying stockholder dividends and stock buy-backs,
> which is where MSFT spent their billions over the past few years, is a
> "spin" on some kind of disasterous situation for MSFT rather than a more
> or less common business practice. Once the bulk of the lawsuits were
> settled, they had a lot more cash than they were afraid that they might
> have and so posted a $3 dividend. Gates, with over a billion shares to
> his name at the time gave it all to charity.
Actually, the laws require executive share holders to hold all stock
options for two years, before selling, to prevent fraud, pumping,
manipulation.
Some large parts of the 'charity' donations are more like bribes such as
the 'donation' to India's Ministies of Health and Education, when they
had adapted GNU/Linux for all government programs.
Then, there is the Bill and Melinda Gates 'foundation' donations.
What we would like to hear is that he gave several billion to a charity,
such as the Red Cross, Red Crescent, or even the Salvation Army, which
he sued this millennium for $4.6million for restoring old systems with
the M$ OS they originally shipped with, and keeping millions of systems
out of the land fill.
Now, the SA runs Linux on all servers, desktops, workstations, and won't
accept any systems that might be older than 5 years.
M$ and Bill G screws with charity, churches, and populations, using
'piracy' to enter new markets, to undercut and flood any emerging market
economy in any place just coming into the computer revolution.
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