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  1. Microsoft the game by Phallus · · Score: 1 · on Horribly Bad Game Designs
    Engage in anti-competitive practices and use the best of creative accounting. Buy out your opponents, freeze out those you cannot buy, cripple software interoperability and force the market to buy every upgrade you ever put out.

    Then for the grand finale, see if you can out do the real Microsoft in dealing with the DOJ. Can you stall until you buy Bush the presidency and save the company from a break up?

    When you've finished, graph your performance against the real Microsoft. Do you have it in you to be smarter and nastier than Bill Gates?

    tangent - art and creation are a higher purpose

  2. M$+tumble=Wall Street Tumble by dvdave · · Score: 1 · on Tech Stocks Tumble

    If what this guy says is true, a stock tumble by Bill and the boys, could have a large impact on the market. An interesting read even if 1/2 of it is true.

  3. MS Stock Pyramid Scheme by Valdrax · · Score: 2 · on Microsoft Loses
    It will be very interesting to see what MS does over the next few months to shore the share price up. I hope they don't do anything illegal in the process. That would be tragic.

    You mean, nothing more illegal that what they're already doing? Microsoft stock is a ticking time bomb on Wall Street. When the house of cards keeping it up falls, many investors, mutual funds, and company 401k's will be hurt by their deception. Just look at the NASDAQ today. It was down over 200 points this morning just from the break-off of negotiations this weekend.


    I'll be happy to see their stock burn, but I worry that too many people will be hurt by having recklessly invested in the company. Then again, it may be just desserts for backing an unethical company.

  4. Standard Oil not engaged in options juggling by FreeUser · · Score: 2 · on Interview: Antitrust Experts Respond re MS

    As was noted in The Economist (August 07th issue), and elsewhere, Microsoft has a great deal of undisclosed financial liability, including US$60 billion (yes, with a "B") worth of options debt to their employees that is coming due in the next few years. Were it not for the penchant of humans to live in denial for extended periods of time, the stock would be valued significantly lower, not higher.

    Breaking up M$ might make them more valuable than they already are, by diluting the pryamid and allowing them to benefit from the "Baby Bell" phenominon, but it is unlikely that such benefits will come anywhere close to equalling the liability Microsoft has already taken on. In addition, such a breakup will not shield their "offspring" companies from lawsuits (both pending and yet to be filed), many of which, given the Findings of Fact, stand a good chance of going against Microsoft (or its predicessors).

    Additional references here, here, and here.

  5. Re:They're going to lose employees... by mattdm · · Score: 2 · on Slashdot's "Instant" Legal Analysis of the MS Ruling
    Funny you should mention that. Have you seen this?
    http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfacts.html

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  6. Pay Up Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on USvMS Ruling Expected Today

    http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfa cts.html
    http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfa cts.html
    http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfa cts.html

  7. Pay Up Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on USvMS Ruling Expected Today

    http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfa cts.html
    http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfa cts.html
    http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfa cts.html

  8. Pay Up Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on USvMS Ruling Expected Today

    http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfa cts.html
    http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfa cts.html
    http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfa cts.html

  9. Don't forget their Pyramid Scheming... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Caldera vs. Microsoft Goes to Jury Trial

    Microsoft has to pay its Attorney fees for its attempts to squash Caldera and DR-DOS. But it may be that Microsoft has Committed Financial Fraud besides its anti-trust and anti-competetive practices. I want to go very far, far away from Microsoft today.

  10. Re:Can Any Company Survive So Many Attacks? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Caldera vs. Microsoft Goes to Jury Trial

    I hope that it doesn't.

    And It PROBABLY Won't

  11. Re:Justice/rewards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Caldera vs. Microsoft Goes to Jury Trial

    How's about the bad deeds of the present:
    A Bit of A Pyramid Scheme

  12. More on Microsoft... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Caldera vs. Microsoft Goes to Jury Trial

    Microsoft is a Pyramid (of steaming poo)
    -or-
    Check this out!

  13. More on Microsoft... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Caldera vs. Microsoft Goes to Jury Trial

    Microsoft is a Pyramid (of steaming poo)
    -or-
    Check this out!

  14. Re:Where does your money go? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Caldera vs. Microsoft Goes to Jury Trial

    Microsoft == A Pack of Ravenous Attorneys

    http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfa cts.html

  15. Re:Slashdot is scared of M$ too by Rob+the+Roadie · · Score: 1 · on Investment Advisor Alleges MS Financial Fraud
    It's not so much /. or it's authors or it's contributors, it has to be Andover.Net - it can be no other.

    When Roblimo posted this, he knew he was skating on very thin ice but he took the risk and it was posted and in the next few hours vast numbers of /.ers will skim over the document and realise that they are not financial market experts but come up with the same opinion.

    What goes up, must come down.

    Okay, this article/document/fact/fiction may not be the tool to bring Microsoft back into check but sooner or later it will happen.

    From the short converastion I have just had with my financial advisor I have managed to glean this much...this article it's self is based completely on interpretation of laws. All this article does is play the other side of the laws that Microsoft is alleged to be breaching.

    If this article was totally accurate, why the ambigous language in the disclaimer?
    Disclaimer: Due to the dramatic implications of my study results and potential legal ramifications for Microsoft, I must emphatically state that the following is my opinion based upon my understanding of the facts. I assume no responsibility whatsoever for any investment related decision or misinterpretations of the tax law I have made in this analysis.


    My 2 cents? /. hasn't sold out on this issue, Roblimo et al are just trying to cover their own backs/jobs/entire lives.

    Remember...We are /.
  16. Re:Too technical by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on BBC Solicts Questions to Ask Bill Gates
    Very true. These were the two questions I sent yesterday, and for which I received an acknowledgement today. BTW, the original request at the BBC web site asked that questioners send their full name and town where they live. 1. According to this Economist article and the web page of Bill Parish: Economist article Bill Parish

    "For instance, Microsoft, the world's most valuable company, declared a profit of $4.5 billion in 1998; when the cost of options awarded that year, plus the change in the value of outstanding options, is deducted, the firm made a loss of $18 billion, according to Smithers." What does Mr. Gates have to say regarding this? 2. Since Microsoft is the most universally hated company amongst the technical community, is it becoming more and more difficult to find employees willing to work for you? Paul