Hadron wrote:
> Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:25:23 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:45:16 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> Steve Ballmer has deep pockets. Bill Gates has deep pockets. Many
>>>> ex-Softies are millionaires. But they won't donate their assets and
>>>> saving to Microsoft if it operated at a loss and buys its own stock.
>>>
>>> You seem to be competely lost about what a stock buyback is for. You
>>> seem
>>> to see it as a negative, when in fact it's nothing of the sort.
>>> Microsoft buys back it's stock to reduce dillution of it's stock,
>>> improving the stock
>>> value in the process. Because microsoft gives out so many stock options
>>> to it's employees, it's forced to periodically buy back stock to prevent
>>> them from having to issue more, and dillute the pool.
>>>
>>> This is common practice, and you typically see stock buybacks when a
>>> companies stock is lower than normal.
>>>
>>> Further, Microsoft is *NOT* operating a loss, unless you consider
>>> profits of BILLIONS of dollars a quarter a loss.
>>>
>>> While it may be true that Microsoft may have to borrow money to buy
>>> Yahoo, at the profit level they have, they'll pay off that loan in less
>>> than 6
>>> months. What's more, the only reason for the loan is so they don't have
>>> to deplete their cash reserves.
>>>
>>> Why do you keep saying Microsoft is operating at a loss when they are
>>> not?
>>>
>>> How about an answer Roy? Why are you saying something that is patently
>>> untrue?
>>
>> An answer from Roy Schestowitz that is honest and truthful?
>>
>> Yea right.
>>
>> Schestowitz is the John Edward of COLA.
>>
>> He speaks to the dead and claims to know all kinds of things that nobody
>> else seems to know.
>> He also has a stream of suckers following him around like he is some sort
>> of deity.
>>
>> You reading this LiarNut?
>
> Liarnut rarely, if ever, reads the posts to which he replies to and
> shills.
Another fine "true linux advocacy" and "me too" post from the
"true linux advocate", "kernel hacker", "emacs user", "swapfile expert", "X
specialist", "CUPS guru", "USB-disk server admin", "defragger
professional", "newsreader magician", "hardware maven", "time
coordinator", "email sage" and "OSS culling committee chairman" Hadron
Quark, aka Hans Schneider, aka Richard, aka Damian O'Leary
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Microsoft Windows - The art of incompetence.
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