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To: DMaA who wrote (325520)12/4/2002 2:13:07 AM
From: DavesM  Respond to of 769670
 
DMA,

How do you figure that?

By giving stock options, wasn't Microsoft able to pay employees, money that the Company would never have been able to pay other wise? Isn't employee compensation a deductible expense? I suppose any company in the world would jump at the chance to pay employees with stock rather than cash.

re:"the tax was paid only once, not the 2, 3 or more times..."