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____/ Homer on Saturday 20 September 2008 03:23 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> ____/ Brad on Friday 19 September 2008 16:49 : \____
>
>>> This ought to be a hint for you... if MS wasn't making money then
>>> explain how they've managed to stay in business for all this time.
>>> Ever see the Redmond campus? I doubt you have. There are hundreds
>>> of beautiful buildings that have all been bought and paid for.
>>> Hardly something that companies that lose billions of dollars can
>>> afford to do.
>
> Good to know Microsoft core employees like you are so worried about
> GNU/Linux that you track COLA.
>
>> Enron has nice buildings too. And pension plans. Oh, the pensions!
>
> The US is in debt to the tune of *$9.7 Trillion*, thanks mainly to their
> Oil Exploration, ahem - I mean "War on Terror" in Iraq, and yet the good
> people in the US continue to wake up, eat a healthy breakfast of grits
> and maple syrup, and go to work every morning. Funny how that works.
>
> I guess it's all about checks(sic) and balances. Ballmer wears the
> checks, and the creative accounting department juggles the SEC filing.
> It's just like the Big Top, with Ballmer as the clown, and half the
> carneys gluing coconuts to posts to rip off the rubes, whilst the other
> half switch all the unserviceable equipment round like a game of musical
> chairs, to fool the inspectors. Its amazing what you can accomplish with
> smoke and mirrors. Eventually their flimsy Big Top is going to collapse
> though, then we really will all have a good laugh.
Microsoft may be like a man on speed, 'living it up'. One day it may wake up
and realise the the cardiac damage leaves it just 6 months to live (at most).
"Ironically the $45 billion bet on Yahoo, partly funded by debt, comes just
as Microsoft is finally starting to make good on its decade-old promise of
earning money beyond Office and Windows.
[…]
"In the end (returning to this blog’s ostensible subject) this is a very
good deal for open source. It takes Microsoft’s eye off the competitive ball.
It tells everyone inside Big Green to forget about intrapreneurship. It eats
up the cash Microsoft had to threaten Linux with.
"But this is going to end as all tragedies must, with tears. Steve Ballmer
is getting taken for the biggest ride of his life, and one day he’s going to
find himself dumped out of the limo by the side of the road wondering what
happened."
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2007
I like that last bit. Pretty mind describes lots of the fraud that's being
exposed at the moment, with the SEC going AWOL.
- --
~~ Best of wishes
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