Tom gets confused when profit-making enterprises talk about using profits for reasons other than enriching shareholders. Maybe it's the monochrome world-view of black and white hats that's done it. Maybe it's the transparency of a dual-purpose business model that has him spinning in circles. He should talk to Whole Foods CEO John Mackey. He might be able to explain this concept to him better.
It's obviously not a argument that legal-for-now monopolies make, at least not all that earnestly, otherwise Tom would be genuflecting westward towards Cupertino. > -----Original Message----- > Bill Gates says it is his moral duty to overcharge customers and > transfer > the ill-gotten gains to social causes of his choosing. He urges other > CEOs to do the same. Do our FoBs support him on this? Or is this just > an > argument to make illegal monopolies legal? ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
