Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Corbis and Bill Gates question.
From: Steven Alexander <alexpix@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 14:33:28 -0400
 
on 10/5/00 1:01 PM, Alan Hull at hull@telia.com wrote:


> I am very puzzled about why Bill Gates is buying up all the
> Photographic Stock Agencies.  Another one fell last week to Corbis, and
> for the life of me I cannot understand why a multi-billionare is
> bothering with such small companies.
>

MONEY!!!!!!!! The stock business is big business and if you control it you
make more.  Only Getty can compete on the scale of Corbis.  Which agency did
Corbis gobble up last week??

Happy snaps,

Steven Alexander
Replies: Reply from Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> (Re: [Leica] Corbis and Bill Gates question.)