"There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is bad for the long-term worth of the economy."
--Steve Ballmer
There are several different types of pyramid schemes, so people are often deceived by the use of this term. Here is a humorous example of the more classical form.
Whether Microsoft can implode or not, we do not know for sure yet, but as we noted yesterday, layoffs have already begun and the company is headed towards debt [1, 2].
News Analysis. Blogger Mini-Microsoft says signs show layoffs coming to the software giant. The prediction: Jan. 15.
According to Todd Bishop, "A Microsoft spokesman declined to comment [on layoffs]." Analysts are not positive at the moment and answers may soon arrive. ⬆
To those of us (over 99.999% of people impacted by this) who do not work at the EPO the misuse of words like "products" (monopolies are not products) should be disturbing
Kuhn: I'd like to interject for a moment, we made an alliance with the Microsoft-dominated LF to outsource projects to Microsoft GitHub and rich people gave us money to do this