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Editor's Note: FOSS Is More Valuable Than $60 Billion
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| Oh I know, think of the poor billionaires- they think it's harder to become
| filthy rich under that type of system, which is why are so ruthless in
| killing it. For them to win, everyone else must lose. Which is another kind
| of blindness, and creating an enemy where there isn't one- anyone can use and
| benefit from FOSS. I may cry myself to sleep over mean old FOSS picking on
| them. On second thought, nah, why bother?
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-08-22-032-35-PS
Recent:
Conversations With My Dad About Open Source
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| By 1999, he had jumped online for stock trading. He called me one day and
| said “Know anything about this company Red Hat? They went public with a $3
| billion market cap and near as I can tell, their software is free. Am I
| missing something? How is that a sustainable business? Or should I short
| Microsoft stock?”
|
| [...]
|
| Open source companies can be big, but can they be really big? The conference
| opened with a keynote by Jim Whitehurst, the CEO of Red Hat, which is the
| largest, pure-play open source company.
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http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6646
Open Source and Sustainability
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| I won't type in the whole chapter (too lazy), but I will say that he goes on
| for four pages talking about how open source makes it possible for small
| people to do powerful things, and how, as it inevitably gets better through
| user-driven innovation, it is the model of a sustainable system. (He even
| quotes from CATB and explains how he, as a biodiesel farmer and producer, has
| seen the open source effect in action, applied it to his own way of working,
| and has profited from it.)
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http://opensource.org/node/342
Judging open source innovation with Red Hat
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| In the creativity category IBM and Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems won
| for a system they built for the U.S. Navy. Yup Linux is on U.S Naval Warships
| defending the free world and American interests. The system that Red Hat fits
| into there (again something that required all kinds of interesting work) is
| the Zumwalt Total Ship Computing Environment (TSCE).
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/06/judging-open-source-innovation.html
Microsoft in $US20b buyback
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| She expects Microsoft to complete the repurchase - at least five times larger
| than its average per quarter in the past fiscal year - over the next three
| months.
|
| "They won't announce it until it's done,'' Ms Bellini said.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://business.smh.com.au/business/microsoft-in-us20b-buyback-20080806-3r0l.html
UBS says Microsoft aims for $20 billion buyback: report
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| Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) will buy back
| as much as $20 billion of its stock to boost its flagging share price,
| Bloomberg News quoted a top-rated software analyst as saying.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/mergersNews/idUSN0642050020080806
Microsoft should issue debt for a buyback--analyst
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| Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) should take on
| debt to repurchase stock as a way to revive its flagging share price, a
| financial analyst said in a new report issued on Tuesday.
|
| Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co analyst David Hilal called on the company to
| take advantage of its predictable cash flow and rock solid balance sheet to
| execute a leveraged buyback.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2225586020080722
Eight Years of Wrongness
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| That performance record would be embarrassing enough on its own, but it comes
| in spite of going through an unprecedented amount of our cash on buybacks
| ^^^^^^^^^^^
| (nearly $43 billion worth in just the past three fiscal years) and other
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| schemes that were supposed to drive the stock.
|
| [...]
|
| Some readers may be surprised that I was initially a Ballmer supporter.
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http://msftextrememakeover.blogspot.com/2008/06/eight-years-of-wrongness.html
Microsoft loses 90 Billion Dollars [in less than a year]
http://slated.org/microsoft_loses_90_billion_dollars
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