____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 04 March 2008 13:59 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 04 March 2008 07:50 : \____
>>
>>>>> Microsoft's share-price has more or less arrived at where it was a year
>>>>> ago, although it's still up on the previous year. It does appear to
>>>>> have stabilised at this US$27 point, but if the present trend continues,
>>>>> it could well be back at its pre-1998 value before long. Time will
>>>>> tell.
>>>>
>>>> That's after up to $32,000,000,000 in buybacks.
>>>>
>>>> New summary here:
>>>> http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/03/microsofts-finances.html
>>>>
>>>> Even Glyn Moody (a journalist) has cited it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Another Worldcom?
>>
>> Different scales. But the execs are leaving the company quickly (guilty
>> conscience?).
>>
>
> Worldcom were claiming US$100bn in assets as they collapsed, and their
> fraud was at about US$4bn.a Microsoft claim US$49bn in assets, about
> half the asset base of Worldcom, although their current market cap is
> about US$250bn, but falling.
>
> Interestingly, there has been something of a change in the law in the US
> regarding damages for patent infringement, something which will benefit
> large companies and deliberate infringers well indeed, but probably make
> little or no difference to anyone else:
>
> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a4bFLqwEx2II&refer=us
>
> The finance pages seem to think that the capping of possible damages to
> US$2bn when the original claim had been US$6bn has benefited Microsoft.
> Well, it would, wouldn't it?
We shall live and see. Bill Parish returned an E-mail to me the other day.
Clues and hidden facts continue to be gathered.
> Alcatel-Lucent, of course, stand to lose proportionately.
>
> The bizarre thing is that the legal people still don't seem to see that
> there's anything strange about patenting maths. Still, as they're
> making so much money out of it, I suppose that isn't all that
> surprising, either.
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