Greg Lopp on Fri, 13 Aug 1999 10:47:43 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] RHAT at 84.6875!


Walt Mankowski wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 10:04:24AM -0400, Charles Stack wrote:
> > Redhat just surpassed M$'s stock price.  RHAT is now above $84/share.
>
> Interesting, but irrelevant.  M$'s market cap of $424 billion is
> still 76 times higher than Red Hat's.  Gates isn't losing any
> sleep over Red Hat's IPO.
>

He probably wishes that the IPO could have been included in the preliminary
findings of fact that were submitted in the big trial this week.  The
stronger linux is, the stronger their arguement that they don't have a
monopoly.  ("If we had a monopoly, we could fix prices....Windows is still
~$90.")



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