I read in money magazine article recently that MS has 50 billion dollars cash on hand. Thats a lot of cash!
-Ronnie When facts are few, experts are many. -Donald R.Gannon On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Joe Linux wrote: > This is a huge problem. Mandrake has reported in their newsletter that > many times they have been on the verge of a big deal and then M$ jumps > in to screw it up. I know years ago even before the advent of Linux > that I was told that M$ had so much money that the situation was very > scary. They had the financial power to easily buy off politicians. I > put a lot of the blame on Apple because Apple refused to license their > system to anyone else and that's really what killed any competition > within the OS market for many years. > > The thing of it is companies have been buying their way into markets > from the beginning of time. Coca-Cola always made sure their soft drink > was sold at sporting events and so forth. Steinway paid artists to play > their pianos on the concert stage. So this isn't all that unusual or > even unfair, but it's very clear that M$ is a monopoly out of control. > I consider it my civic duty to not use any M$ product when there is a > viable alternative.
