Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I heard today that Bill Gates plan on giving away $80 billion (thats 80000 million). You may not like the guy, but not too many people are in a position to be that charitable. Dan C. At 08:51 AM 01-08-99 -0700, you wrote: [snip] >> > I agree. Gates is an easy target since he is so rich. He has also >donated hundreds of millions to various causes but people as they are will >always be jealous of someone that has so much. Netscape would have died had >they not been bought by AOL. > I like your Henry Ford analogy. Business is business. If one >provides a good product, at a reasonable cost, with benefits that that make >people buy it then they are better in business then others. That does not >mean they have the perfect product, but one people want. Case in point, >maybe that is the reason that Canon (MS?) flourishes and Leica (Netscape) >has difficulty with market share. > > Peter K > >