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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 488.04+0.2%9:30 AM EST
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To: jonkai who wrote (66941)4/9/2002 7:24:34 PM
From: miraje  Read Replies (2) of 74651
 
Did you even read your own link, comrade?? The first paragraph:

Four years ago, when Microsoft Corp. hired Jack Krumholtz as its first full-time lobbyist, the software behemoth relegated him to a tiny room in its Chevy Chase sales office. Microsoft's agenda was modest √ arcane changes to software copyright and data-encrypting laws √ and so was Krumholtz's budget: He had no secretary and the company's political action committee was financed with a paltry $16,000.

For many years, Gates and company were naive enough to believe that they could just build a successful business through hard work, and ignore politics. They learned the hard way that buying and paying off the filthy rotten scum that populate DC and assorted state governmental agencies was the only way they could survive.

Yes, they eventually had to crawl into the mud to deal with the sleaze that said "Pay up and play our game or we'll pull you to pieces and destroy you".

Using the appropriate language to describe my feelings towards outfits like SUNW, ORCL, AOL, and the rest, and what they've done to ruin IT innovation and growth through running to and paying off the political and bureaucratic whores, would get me banned from SI.

You and you fellow comrades just don't get it. Back to the USSR....
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