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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (67259)	3/9/2005 12:39:49 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

Lizzie, this is too funny - check out what Onset funded: Active Reasoning - a company that creates software for Sarbanes Oxley compliance. $12M Round. Got to love innovation spent on legislation. The investment will probably do well. What's awfully sad though, is how our society will spend millions creating a software company for legislation, meanwhile doctors offices have zilch in the way of "Preventive Software" to remind patients when they are late on preventive exams (e.g. cholesteral, prostate tests for guys, mammograms for women, etc.) Regards, Amy J

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (67259)	3/9/2005 2:47:32 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

But the fact is, that if google had to expense options out of the gate they would have been unprofitable. Would it have hurt them? yes. How about if Google had to..... Buy "compensation options" over the counter from a brokerage... Give those "compensation options" to Google employees, and... Expense the amount Google paid to the brokerage for the "compensation options" in the quarter they were purchased? Would GOOG have been unprofitable in that accounting scenario? If so, then they should be viewed as such.