Comments on: ASUS Enters the Slog Business http://techrights.org/2009/05/30/asus-anti-linux-slog-business/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/05/30/asus-anti-linux-slog-business/comment-page-1/#comment-64303 Roy Schestowitz Sat, 30 May 2009 13:54:49 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=11820#comment-64303 A year later <a href="http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/31/charles-pancerzewski-vs-fraud/" rel="nofollow">Microsoft paid its employee $4 million to keep secret the company's accounting fraud and shred the evidence</a>. A year later Microsoft paid its employee $4 million to keep secret the company’s accounting fraud and shred the evidence.

]]> By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2009/05/30/asus-anti-linux-slog-business/comment-page-1/#comment-64302 Needs Sunlight Sat, 30 May 2009 13:51:53 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=11820#comment-64302 "... the single most lucrative product Microsoft sells is its own stock. Microsoft receives almost as much cash inflow from the stock market as it does by selling goods and services." http://www.fool.com/portfolios/rulemaker/2000/rulemaker000217.htm That was 10 years ago when it was at its economic prime. Oh. Wait. It ran a loss ($18 billion) even back then http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=230106 http://etheridge.ca/articles/economist-options.html and the business model could be seen to be non-viable to the point that Gates bailed from his position as CEO. “… the single most lucrative product Microsoft sells is its own stock. Microsoft receives almost as much cash inflow from the stock market as it does by selling goods and services.”

http://www.fool.com/portfolios/rulemaker/2000/rulemaker000217.htm

That was 10 years ago when it was at its economic prime. Oh. Wait. It ran a loss ($18 billion) even back then

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=230106
http://etheridge.ca/articles/economist-options.html

and the business model could be seen to be non-viable to the point that Gates bailed from his position as CEO.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/05/30/asus-anti-linux-slog-business/comment-page-1/#comment-64301 Roy Schestowitz Sat, 30 May 2009 13:51:30 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=11820#comment-64301 This one is more recent: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/16/microsoft_fast_oslo_police_raid/" rel="nofollow">Microsoft's Fast charged with 'accounting fraud'</a> This one is more recent: Microsoft’s Fast charged with ‘accounting fraud’

]]> By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2009/05/30/asus-anti-linux-slog-business/comment-page-1/#comment-64300 Needs Sunlight Sat, 30 May 2009 13:46:57 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=11820#comment-64300 It's likely that much of the 'earnings' at M$ since 1999 could have come from stock emissions and trading company stock and other investments, more than from Windows and Office. It would only be necessary if that trading is no longer profitable. We all know where the company is going. With that in mind, who's a big enough chump nowadays to buy MS stock? What the sale of debt looks like is a venture into the junk bond business. The ringleaders have already hired in expert book cookers: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/03/did-the-enron-of-norway-pull-a-fast-one-on-microsoft-more-details-about-the-mess-at-fast-search-transfer/ http://www.computeruser.com/articles/daily/8,6,1,0225,02.html It’s likely that much of the ‘earnings’ at M$ since 1999 could have come from stock emissions and trading company stock and other investments, more than from Windows and Office.

It would only be necessary if that trading is no longer profitable. We all know where the company is going. With that in mind, who’s a big enough chump nowadays to buy MS stock? What the sale of debt looks like is a venture into the junk bond business.

The ringleaders have already hired in expert book cookers:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/03/did-the-enron-of-norway-pull-a-fast-one-on-microsoft-more-details-about-the-mess-at-fast-search-transfer/

http://www.computeruser.com/articles/daily/8,6,1,0225,02.html

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