In <v04220802b569d43f9235@[192.168.1.3]>, on 06/11/00
at 05:44 PM, Lizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>At 12:55 PM -0700 6/11/00, Tim May wrote:
>>Apple would no doubt fail if IBM and Motorola stopped making PPC
>>chips. This doesn't mean the government has any constitutional or
>>moral authority to force IBM and Motorola to stay in this business.
>Which leads me to this question -- so why doesn't Bill just close up
>shop? He's got fifty+ billion dollars -- he couldn't spend it all in his
>lifetime if he tried. So why doesn't he just pull a John Galt and say,
>"Fine. I hereby close down Microsoft. We're out of business. No more
>monopoly. Have fun. I'm going to Disneyworld."
>(Ditto most tobacco executives and many other people whom the government
>likes to pick on. They've got all the moneyt anyone, even ME, could ever
>want -- so why bother anymore?)
>I'm assuming it's not that simple, that you can't just shut the doors
>and throw away the key. Can anyone confirm this?
Well Bill Gates could leave any time he wanted to but as far as closing up
shop there are obligations to the stock holders in Microsoft.
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