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Microsoft Considers $10 Billion Dividend
Dreadnougat writes "Microsoft is considering paying out a $10 billion dividend, the largest corporate payout ever. Cynics (ok, anyone reading /.) might note that Bill Gates stands to make $1.18 billion himself off the $1 a share dividend, in comparison to the $95 million he makes in a normal year off the regular 8 cents a share dividend."
This is the main way of funnelling profits from your company account to your personal account in Railroad Tycoon.
Bite the hand.
1) Buy SCO and read their evil plans before making them all walk the plank.
2) Put it all in a massive pool and swim in it.
3) Buy out every cell phone company in your state and turn them off *just to stop the stupid ringtones*.
4) Spend the rest on pr0n.
Beep beep.
Guess that's the short end of the stick, huh.
I wish there were more situations where I had so much money I had to give it away just to keep it managable.
Yikes! there is a better way to reduce that cash pile. Give away 10 billion to people on the planet.6billion/10billion=1.6$ so, microsoft should starts giving out 1.6$ to everyone. That way, they may even start to love Bill Gates. wait no, considering their crappy software costs ten fold more...eh
secure the damn OS.
Thanks.
> Or an "accountaint" - I hear they're more professional than "accountains."
How lame. If you're going to correct someone for a single typo at least get it right.
Accountant. A taint is the space between your nut sack and asshole.
What profits
20....15...10...5...submit
Dear Mr. Gates, please choose one of the following:
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Now I have to go find my Railroad Tycoon CD. Now thanks to you, my three-day weekend has just became drastically shorter.
The problem you guys have is "why didn't I think of that back then".
No, my problem is "I wasn't alive back then".
sin(6cos(r)+5A)
I think the Open Source developer community would benefit greatly if Microsoft made part of their cash stockpile available to them. It would permit them to utilize those funds in a fiscally responsible manner without tainting their scruples.
This initiative would allow the major acquisitions of powerhouses such as SCO, Paint Shop Pro, multimedia studios, and of course Oracle.
Which is nice.
What Microsoft should really do is host a T-Shirt design contest, where the winner gets three copies of the shirt they designed and a $10 billion credit at ThinkGeek.
With Windows you can get Money.
With Linux you can get Enlightenment.
Really.
Or are you just posing rhetorical questions? Of course, everything that MS does is evil and has to be scrutinized. After all, they are THE enemy.
Hmm i guess cmdr Taco. I have a big visual studio .net banner right on top of the story :)
So I'm going to get $1 for the one share of MSFT I own! Wow, now I only lost $24.34 to MSFT!!!
hmm... for fun I enjoy launching DDoS attacks against 127.87.42.5
Or 50k Indian programmers 20k a year.
Give it up man, the golden age is over.
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
There will be an interval of at least four years before your Enlightenment can progress to the next level, and some even claim that the a higher level of Enlightenment than already attained will never come to fruition.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
Great, I just finished a delicious Mexican dinner, and you made me projectile-vomit with that statement.
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
I don't think he's making a blanket statement because he is caught up in hating MS, he's generalizing what most of the other posts on this topic will be about, thereby making it unnecesary for other people to post anything at all since he has covered what 90% of /. will post about.
At least that's how I read it.
come on! ANYTHING MS does is immediately evil?
In a nutshell.......yes
Table-ized A.I.
sorry but 640K$ should be enough for everyone...
--- Metamoderating abusive downgraders since my 300th post.
Hence the reason it was called BASIC - Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control. That other acronym was just a marketing ploy.
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