Re: How Much Has Bill Overcharged America?

[Luc-Etienne Brachotte <Luc-Etienne.Brachotte@art.alcatel.fr>]

  > Charles Mueller wrote:
  > 
  > >I haven't seen any figures here yet as to how many dollars we're
  > >actually talking about--nothing on the industry's total sales, Microsoft's
  > >revenues (hardware, software), it's reported total/unit costs, net profits,
  > >and so on.  The Heritage Foundation--in its defense of Bill--gives us these
  > >beginning numbers:
  > >
  > >1.  1996 'Computer Industry' Sales...............................$570 billion
  > >
  > >2.  Microsoft's 1996 'Computer Industry' Sales..........$ 10 billion (2%)
  > >
  > >3.  Industry's 1996 'Software Revenues'......................$ 250 billion
  > >
  > >4.  Microsoft's 1996 'Software Revenues'.....................$9.4 billion (4%)
  
  The Computer Industry Sales/Revenues *do* include the super-computers market,
  in which Microsoft is *not* competing. This market, even if corresponds to
  much lesser units sold than micro-computers, generates much greater sums due to
  the total price of each unit.
  
  Microsoft is in a monopoly situation only in the micro-computers markets.
  
  BTW, can you post the numbers for this market(s) ?
  
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