[PLUG] Microsoft Earnings Report

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, D. Cooper Stevenson wrote:

> "As a result of challenges to our business model, sales of our products
> may decline, we may have to reduce the prices we charge for our products,
> and our revenues and operating margins may consequently decline.

  Tsch! Tsch! Excuse me for not feeling sorry for them.

> Open Source model, software is produced by loosely associated groups of
> unpaid programmers,

  I wonder if the folks at Red Hat, etc. would agree with this assessment.

> While we believe that our products provide customers with significant
> advantages in security and productivity,

  Wonder what they're smoking up there. Aren't reality-altering drugs illegal
in Redmond?

Your local curmudgeon,

Rich

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