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  4. From: walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk)
  5. Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
  6. References: <BzKsJ2.Bwp@csulb.edu> <1992Dec20.215347.1614@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <BzLMIH.II3@csulb.edu> <1992Dec21.074803.1363@sequent.com> <1992Dec22.095022.21715@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
  7. Message-ID: <BzoG15.21q@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
  8. Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
  9. Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
  10. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:10:15 GMT
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  13. helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
  14. >Ever think that Microsoft is only able to devote 27+% of its income to
  15. >R & D because it has such a big market share and because its products are
  16. >so competative?  
  17.  
  18. And do you know how big this market share is?  In 1991, MS received
  19. about 25% of the total profit of all software sold.  No other company
  20. is even close to this amount of profit per total market sales.
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  23.                     Todd Walk
  24.                     walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
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