At 20:33 -0700 6/10/00, Bill Stewart wrote:
>At 05:59 PM 06/08/2000 -0400, Bill Frezza ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>>The best thing that could come from the government's forced breakup of
>>Microsoft would be to turn the richest man in the world into a free market,
>>anti-government, radical capitalist. Gates is only 45 years old. Think of
>>what he could accomplish if he devoted the rest of his life and even a
>>fraction of his wealth to the cause of freedom. How many Havenco's could he
>>build?
>
>What's this "Gates" business? The DoJ invasion has cost Bill a few
>billion, and Larry Ellison is now Rich Guy #1. I don't know how he feels
>about governments and free markets in general, though he's got a few opinions
>about airport closing times and local governments that are well-known :-)
Actually Gates is still the richest. Ellison only wins if you only
count the stock ownership in there respective companies. Overall
Gates still wins hands down.
--
Kevin "The Cubbie" Elliott
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