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To: stockman_scott who wrote (52520)	8/21/2002 9:58:56 AM
From: hueyone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

While Gates is maintaining the standard, tech party line to not expense stock options, his statement that expensing stock options will not hurt technology is a deviation from the standard party line. I suspect MSFT could weather expensing stock options better than most and emerge stronger vis a vis the competition if stock options were expensed. Of course Gates would be the most hated man in technology if he were to actually endorse expensing stock options. Since Gates does not personally accept stock options, he is one of the few tech CEO's whose self interests appear to be aligned with mine as an outside shareholder. I don't regard CEOs granting themselves more and more stock options while their company's stock prices plummeted (Tom Siebel for example) to be in outside shareholders interests. JMO, Huey