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- From: veit@Unify.com (Veit Irtenkauf)
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- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 17:35:40 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.145115.25441@tc.cornell.edu> <Bzn0EI.D2w@csulb.edu> <1992Dec22.040237.14440@tc.cornell.edu> <1992Dec22.161425.0299694@locus.com>
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- In article <1992Dec22.161425.0299694@locus.com>, lowell@locus.com (Lowell Morrison) writes:
- > Dov, the price drop has nothing to do with Windows. It simply with
- > more and more people purchasing software, the fixed costs can be
- > amortized out over more people. And if you think Microsoft is a leader
- > in this, please explain how Billy Gates is now worth 5.5 Billion Dollars.
- > It sounds like some over charging, and preditory policies have made
- > Gates the worlds richest man in only a decade.
- >
-
- If Gates would have been able to get 5.5 Billion dollars out of
- Microsoft this would mean that Microsofts totalled profits of the
- last years would be about 40 billion dollars. Impossible.
- The answer why Gates is worth so much is simple: Stock Market.
- Speculators drove up the price of Microsoft, and as its founder
- he profitted the most. He then reinvested his profits....
-
- This is it. Look at other people like Jobs or Kahn. How did they
- make their initial wealth? Stocks in their own company. It's that
- easy (if you can make a startup company successful -- this is the
- problem!)
-
- -- Veit
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