Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>It will be interesting to see if MS can figure out >what to do without the explosive growth that has driven them through the >last decade. IBM didn't. Alexy, You're missing one market MS has said will be the future of business that they want to be involved in. Content. Actually, it's not MS, it's Bill Gates with Corbis. They own the rights to Ansel Adams' work, and they are buying up big collections of pictures, and they think anyone who uses the web will want to buy images from them for $2-$3 a pop for their web pages, newsletters and such, and have been telling photographers that they can make something like $21Million on a picture if enough people buy it. Just read it in Photo District News. :-) Yeah, right. I'll shoot my own pictures, with my Leicas to get on topic, thank you very much, and have a lot more fun than buying off the web. (There's $2 from that $21 million he won't get. <G>) Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch What is a free gift ? Aren't all gifts free?