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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 22:39:26 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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>> I don't have them to hand, but if you think anyone's making money on
>> PCs nowadays, you're delusional (with respect to hardware). 
> 
> Let's see, Dell has a $66B market cap, revenues of $8B/quarter and 
> $500M/quarter in profit.    
> 
> Lots of people working for companies who haven't figured out how to do
> it as well as Dell *say* it can't be done but numbers say differently.

And how much of that was profit on PCs running Linux?

M.

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