[Am-info] Re: MS depositions

[Erick Andrews]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 20:27:54 -0500, John J. Urbaniak wrote:

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>Erick Andrews wrote:
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>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:49:51 -0500, John J. Urbaniak wrote:
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>> >> Au contraire.  The judge determines what gets edited out.  By the way, the
>> >> "no-patent violation" clause.  Another anti-trust lawsuit looms.  And
>> >> remember MS is a predatory monopoly.  It will become part of what
>> >> Bork/Starr called the "low-hanging" fruit.  A treble damage charge against
>> >> the income statement!  It will come.
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>> >Yep.  Bit by bit Microsoft will be picked to pieces.  Then will come the
>> >employee's suits.  Then the stockholder's suits.
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>> >John
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>> And likely after that, some divorce suits and paternity
>> suits.
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>Remember, Microsoft has NO tangible assets other than 30 billion or so in cash
>and investments and a building complex in Seattle.
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>But there are something like 6 billion shares of MSFT outstanding.
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>This works out to around $5 per share give or take a buck or two.
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>That is Microsoft's true or "book" value.  Everything else is hype.
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>And if it's true that they paid no federal taxes for the last two years, then
>their income is just enough to cover their expenses.
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>All in all, it's a very scary picture for all those "investors" who hold
>Microsoft stock.  Makes Enron look like Kindergarten.
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>John
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No argument, John.  I was just commenting on family carnage
that will surely ensue.

-- 
Erick Andrews