I think WillAffleck is investing in MSFT at $80 share based on speculation that Gates funding of Mir and resulting technological, patentable, market cornering spinoffs. And of course in order to fit all of Redmond into space, the refurbishing of the MIR into a massive city size space station would obviously by far outpace the international spacestation effort, and would produce many jobs and much demand for space based componentry... Doesn't Boeing make any of that stuff? There'll be so much demand for space ferrys they'll retrofit 767s with shuttle boosters and ceramic tiles. And all of this will somehow be of great benefit to the free world and open source community (even if purchasing MSFT does initially appear to be signing a pact with Satan himself).
Yes, Microsoft (MSFT on Nasdaq) has provided a wonderful opportunity for folks that enjoy taking a short position in a stock doomed to fall. You guys that are watching your Linux stocks ANDN, RHAT, LNUX etc trail off in value, might be better advised to take your money and short MSFT. I grumble that I personally missed the $15/share drop opportunity... I'd been joking about shorting MSFT for over a year... but nonetheless, I bought into SUNW and ORCL last year before the 100%+ gains... well probably just the next biggest fish in the pond, but they both show some friendliness to the open source ideal without embodying it fully, and also have been and continue to be in a good position to gain from MSFT loss. I think there may still be some people mistaken that MSFT stock has value, so it may stay artificially high for a couple years yet, and meanwhile you get about 90 days to cover a short position... For the novice, short means you start by SELLing at the current price, and hope to buy within 90 days after a price drop to 'cover your position'. Folks that have the guts to do this might have made a lot of money shorting MSFT on Monday. I'd love to hear from anyone that did it....
No, Tyson's a BITE player. He just bit off more than he could chew. Just like Micro$oft, our original discussion topic which we may get back to eventually.
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I think WillAffleck is investing in MSFT at $80 share based on speculation that Gates funding of Mir and resulting technological, patentable, market cornering spinoffs. And of course in order to fit all of Redmond into space, the refurbishing of the MIR into a massive city size space station would obviously by far outpace the international spacestation effort, and would produce many jobs and much demand for space based componentry... Doesn't Boeing make any of that stuff? There'll be so much demand for space ferrys they'll retrofit 767s with shuttle boosters and ceramic tiles. And all of this will somehow be of great benefit to the free world and open source community (even if purchasing MSFT does initially appear to be signing a pact with Satan himself).
Yes, Microsoft (MSFT on Nasdaq) has provided a wonderful opportunity for folks that enjoy taking a short position in a stock doomed to fall. You guys that are watching your Linux stocks ANDN, RHAT, LNUX etc trail off in value, might be better advised to take your money and short MSFT. I grumble that I personally missed the $15/share drop opportunity... I'd been joking about shorting MSFT for over a year... but nonetheless, I bought into SUNW and ORCL last year before the 100%+ gains... well probably just the next biggest fish in the pond, but they both show some friendliness to the open source ideal without embodying it fully, and also have been and continue to be in a good position to gain from MSFT loss. I think there may still be some people mistaken that MSFT stock has value, so it may stay artificially high for a couple years yet, and meanwhile you get about 90 days to cover a short position... For the novice, short means you start by SELLing at the current price, and hope to buy within 90 days after a price drop to 'cover your position'. Folks that have the guts to do this might have made a lot of money shorting MSFT on Monday. I'd love to hear from anyone that did it....
I was waiting for a post from a Micro$oft employee with nothing to do tonight.
No, Tyson's a BITE player. He just bit off more than he could chew. Just like Micro$oft, our original discussion topic which we may get back to eventually.