At 12:55 PM -0700 6/11/00, Tim May wrote:
>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."
Gates doesn't own Microsoft, hence can't close it down unilaterally. The
John Galt maneuver doesn't really work for a publicly-held corporation.
Of course Gates *could* announce that he was retiring and would never write
software for public consumption or devise marketing plans again, but then
that's not a terribly scary prospect.
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