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To: Milan Shah who wrote (35584)12/16/1999 4:17:00 PM
From: Bill Holtzman  Respond to of 74651
 
>>rather than get into that kind of a morass, he is cleverly buying enough control so that it ensures that the high-profit software business keeps coming to him<<

Agree totally. That's why he got into software to begin with. Once you write Windows, you sell each one for $89 and get $88 of profit. Of course, he has to battle pirates and the DOJ (same thing?), but he can certainly afford to do that!



To: Milan Shah who wrote (35584)12/16/1999 4:17:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley  Respond to of 74651
 
Yes, well said. Agree this is exactly what's happening, and believe it is the correct course.