Re: CFA: Microsoft overcharges consumers $10 billion in 3 years

[Simon Cooke <simonc@jumper.org.uk>]

From: stan johnson <sjohnson@gwi.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list AM-INFO <am-info@essential.org>
Sent: Friday, January 08, 1999 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: CFA: Microsoft overcharges consumers $10 billion in 3 years


>** Reply to note from ericb@pobox.com Fri, 8 Jan 1999 17:46:02    
>-0500  
>> competition forces it to keep its prices low  
>  
>The low prices are why the M$ programmers are all/many [?]    
>millionaires. And why Dollar Bill has tens of billions of dollars of    
>personal wealth. Seems clear to me.... 
>
>
>-- 
>Stan Johnson    TeamOS/2
>sjohnson@gwi.net

Actually, I'd say the reason for the number of M$ programmers that are
millionaires, and why BillG has tens of billions of dollars of personal
wealth is because of the stocks that each programmer is given. Over time,
these turn into quite a reasonable sum of money.

Salaries are actually lower than the industry average - case in point, by
staying in DC, I could have been earning twice what I'm earning right now.

You might also want to compare the prices of other OSs on the market too.

Simon (Not speaking for Microsoft, and just about out of bad cold
territory. My views are my own, and may or may not be shared by the
company I work for)