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Conversations With My Dad About Open Source
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| By 1999, he had jumped online for stock trading. He called me one day and
| said “Know anything about this company Red Hat? They went public with a $3
| billion market cap and near as I can tell, their software is free. Am I
| missing something? How is that a sustainable business? Or should I short
| Microsoft stock?”
|
| [...]
|
| Open source companies can be big, but can they be really big? The conference
| opened with a keynote by Jim Whitehurst, the CEO of Red Hat, which is the
| largest, pure-play open source company.
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http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6646
Microsoft may have just begun another massive round of buybacks, approaching
debt in the process. See below.
Days ago:
Microsoft in $US20b buyback
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| She expects Microsoft to complete the repurchase - at least five times larger
| than its average per quarter in the past fiscal year - over the next three
| months.
|
| "They won't announce it until it's done,'' Ms Bellini said.
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http://business.smh.com.au/business/microsoft-in-us20b-buyback-20080806-3r0l.html
UBS says Microsoft aims for $20 billion buyback: report
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| Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) will buy back
| as much as $20 billion of its stock to boost its flagging share price,
| Bloomberg News quoted a top-rated software analyst as saying.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/mergersNews/idUSN0642050020080806
Recent:
Microsoft should issue debt for a buyback--analyst
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| Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) should take on
| debt to repurchase stock as a way to revive its flagging share price, a
| financial analyst said in a new report issued on Tuesday.
|
| Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co analyst David Hilal called on the company to
| take advantage of its predictable cash flow and rock solid balance sheet to
| execute a leveraged buyback.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2225586020080722
Eight Years of Wrongness
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| That performance record would be embarrassing enough on its own, but it comes
| in spite of going through an unprecedented amount of our cash on buybacks
| ^^^^^^^^^^^
| (nearly $43 billion worth in just the past three fiscal years) and other
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| schemes that were supposed to drive the stock.
|
| [...]
|
| Some readers may be surprised that I was initially a Ballmer supporter.
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http://msftextrememakeover.blogspot.com/2008/06/eight-years-of-wrongness.html
Microsoft loses 90 Billion Dollars [in less than a year]
http://slated.org/microsoft_loses_90_billion_dollars
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