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The Future of the Software Industry
madro writes "Remember 'Does IT Matter?' a while ago? Nicholas Carr is back with an editorial in today's New York Times following Microsoft's decision to dramatically reduce its cash stash. Carr's take: Microsoft is admitting it can't find better uses for its cash, due to the growing maturation of the software industry. No mention of open source, although Apple's consumer-targeted model of free iTunes driving iPod demand is one listed alternative." Reader CodeArtisan submits another piece about Microsoft's loot distribution, and Newsforge (which is part of OSDN along with Slashdot) has a story about the future of commodity software.
and youre ful of shit. to bad your iq isnt increasing in the 21st century
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YOUR A FUCKING IDIOT!
WELL, fucking giddy-up! noting like a FUCKING TAX INCREASE, and therefore LESS FUCKING MONEY in peoples pockets, to drive our economy upward! i wonder if that fucktard karey ever took a semester of economic fundamentals.
fucking american dirtbags
FUCKING TAX INCREASE, and therefore LESS FUCKING MONEY in peoples pockets, to drive our economy upward
Look, you twitwad, I'd rather tax those who have some capital that can make some gains, or who has a ton of estate to be taxed -- than have them tax me who doesn't have either. My tax rate is 15% (medicare and social security) even before I consider federal and state taxes. Why do f***heads like bill gates get to skip out on this 15% tax... and then complain that their 13% capital gains is "too high" (when my state, federal and local taxes are far beyond another 20% making it a total of 35%). Hunh? Let the tax rate on capital gains and dividents soar! I don't pay it. And most people making less than 50K a year don't pay it.
Hey you fucking moron. I've never worked a day in my life because my Dad and Mother made it big. I've got lots of cash, and I make more every day in capital gains and dividents -- don't tax me!
Look, you twitwad, I'd rather tax those who have some capital that can make some gains, or who has a ton of estate to be taxed -- than have them tax me who doesn't have either
Yeah! Let's take from those who have worked hard their whole lives and give it to those that haven't! Why again does the government have a right to tax the same money twice? And of course you'd rather have someone else taxed instead of you. I'd rather pay no taxes, but have all the people in the state of Georgia, who I will never meet, taxed at twice the normal rate!
Let the tax rate on capital gains and dividents soar! I don't pay it. And most people making less than 50K a year don't pay it.
Let's stifle the economy! Most of those "upper class" people actually reinvest the money they earn into the companies they own and run. The stereotype of the lazy millionaire is just as false as any other stereotype. Read The Millionaire Next Door and discover who America's real millionaires are (hint: they're not the people with the $600,000 homes, they don't like caviar, and they'd prefer a bud over champagne). Go to Amazon, you can read a couple of the pages in that book. Now tell me we should be taxing these people more? Give me a break.
Casual Games/Downloads
It's a fucking PR MOVE!
/.) hates their guts. Why else do half the states in the country (and half the countries in the world) file lawsuits against their ass? (And all of Asia backs their own version of Linux?)
/. will try to give me "lessons" in "economics" (which they "learned" selling lemonade) and corporate "responsibility to investors" (which they learned from Microsoft).
Microsoft is aware that everybody on the planet (except the moron Windows trolls on
Also, if you give away a big stock benefit, what happens? Morons buy your stock hoping it will happen again. This keeps your stock price up.
And the assholes who own most of the stock retain their wealth. Otherwise they might lose a few percentage points. Perish forbid.
And all it cost them was giving away the company's R&D (and/or acquisition) nest egg.
Which cost them nothing because they have NO FUCKING CLUE how to spend it on R&D ANYWAY!
And they can't buy anybody because everybody else would rather die than work for Microsoft!
So this is the clearest example of assholes running a company into the ground since, well, SCO.
The CORRECT thing to do would be to spend that $50 billion (or at least as much of it as could be controlled - $50 billion is a LOT of money to control) on significant R&D. This would improve MS's chances of being even more profitable in the future, and thus an even better stock pick.
But no, the morons in management can't think that rationally. That's why they're managers. They don't think, they control.
And now the morons on
Allow me to save you the effort. Shove it where the sun doesn't shine.
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!