On 11/21/06, Anders Johansson <andjoh@rydsbo.net> wrote:
On Tuesday 21 November 2006 18:03, John Boyle wrote:
To ALL in the Linux community: How come ALL the commercial companies in the Linux community do not get together and buy out or at least buy a controlling interest in MSFT?
Because their market cap is something like 280 billion US dollars?
All linux companies put together, with the possible exception of IBM, couldn't come up with 140 billion dollars
Let say you could what would you do with MSFT once you have it .... I mean it is financially successful yeah but ... I do not get this at all. In I.T. business you usually buy the smaller very competitive companies so you can continue enjoying the monopolizing market share advantage but buying your biggest real competitor is a suicide mission that may turn out to be huge success making you the 100% dictator or a flop if loose just a few important shares and they figure out what you were after and you spend all your maney in the process. my $.02 George P.S.: This is OT right?? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org