On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:10:42PM +0200, guy keren wrote: > unfortionately, economists measure profits in many different methods. just > as an example - a positive cash flow (which is what _you_ describe as > 'income - outcome') does not mean the company is profitable - to be realy > profitable, you heave to measure these numbers over the complete period of > life of the company, which might be rather complicated....
Right. Currently we have two different numbers for Red Hat -- one shows it's losing, the other that it's profiting. My point was that the main difference between them is that one includes companies owned by Red Hat losing value and the other doesn't. Since we are talking about Red Hat having or not having a future, then it does not matter if companies owned by it are losing value, as Red Hat is not planning on becoming an investment company. I.e., regardless of the other number, Red Hat uses its core business to make money /now/, in these hard economic times. It most definetely has a future. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
