...that's GOTTA hurt!"
Half-a-BILLION dollars!
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...that's GOTTA hurt!"
Half-a-BILLION dollars!
LOL, 'ave it Billy Boy :p
\prolly get that reduced on appeal though :(
The last figure I read was that he is making over £12 million a day in interest on what he already owns :eek:
Mmm, do you remember when he was spotted in McDonalds using 'money-off' vouchers? :eek: what a c**t
Only problem is..... He's got that sort of money in his back pocket!! Not really gonna hurt IMHO! :)
Maybe not hurt per se, but he'll probably notice it on his next bank statement..."Melinda, have you been raiding Saks again, sweetie?"
just shows good things can happen...
Hehe he could lose £300 million odd per day for the next year and he prolly wouldnt go bust :)
Butuz
Half a billion eh, And he only got sued for the legal copies of windows...........
Half a yard is not going to hurt M$. :rolleyes: Have you seen M$'s latest financial statements? 3 months to end-March 2003 - Revenue: $7.8bn, Net income: $2.8bn, Cash & S-t Investment (cash equivalent): $46.2bn... Tell me, if you've £1000 with you and someone want to take £1 from you, is it going to hurt??
Me or him? :D
that kind of money won't really mean much to him, if he is making stupidly large amounts of interest. he'll have it all back in a week.
they are "dissapointed" with the appeal. Lol, just another day in the lift of Bill Gates.
You'd think if they were making $2.8bn in profit every 3 months that they would invest some of the money into making a better OS. ie. one without flaws in it for a change :rolleyes:
why are you lot praising this lawsuit? how many of you use windows products, including internet explorer? what would you do without windows? use linux?
Hehe yeh the reason that microsoft can get away with making non bug free programs is simply that theres no other alternative.
(dont kid yourself, linux isnt an alternative to winXP/Win2003 Server for most people)
People who bash billg/ms do it because they are simply jealous that the guy earns more ££ in interest every week than they earn in a whole year.... :o
Butuz
What's that got to do with the price of fish? Because we use it we shouldn't expect Microsoft to conform to legal requirements and cough up when they infringe someone's patent? They make enough of a bloody fuss when someone infringes THEIR intellectual property rights - should they somehow be held to a lesser standard of probity than they demand of others?
edit: It's not about whether their software is buggy. It's not about how rich Bill Gates is. It's about a theft of intellectual property, you know, the stuff that they saddled us with product activation over, and didn't we just LOVE that. It's about very questionable business practices. It's about possible breaches of the law undertaken to ensure that their WAS no alternative, and that affects all of us, including those who DO use their products.
That should be more ££ in a day in interest than 5 people earn in a lifetime.Quote:
Originally posted by Butuz
People who bash billg/ms do it because they are simply jealous that the guy earns more ££ in interest every week than they earn in a whole year.... :o
Butuz
Don't forget about the crew who just think it's cool to bash MS and most don't even know why they are doing it.
hehe thats spare change for him i suppose
the only reason their are so many bugs and security flaws in windows is because its used by so many people, and a lot of them do nothing but look for theses flaws (yes i know they shouldnt exist in the first place, but wrighting a perfect GUI like XP isnt easy)
I don't have anything against MS products, but I don't like the way they do business, or the way bill is so tighthttp://smilies.sofrayt.com/1/950/cleverman.gif