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Re: [News] GPLv3 Support Growing, Momentum Increasing, Microsoft Shows Its Great Fear

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
[...]
> Their profitability is declining (forge the buybacks), so they are desperate to

Go to clinic, Schestowitz. 

BTW speaking of buybacks, IBM recently showed pretty good performance
buying back *8* (EIGHT) percent of shares and thereby saving an 
estimated $1.6 billion in corporate tax.

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070608/BUSINESS01/706080321/1012
(After IBM uses tax loophole, IRS moves to close it)

Not bad. (For IBM shareholders. :-) )

regards,
alexander.

--
"PJ points out that lawyers seem to have difficulty understanding the 
GPL. My main concern with GPLv3 is that - unlike v2 - non-lawyers can't 
understand it either."
                                         -- Anonymous Groklaw Visitor

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