Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 19:01 05-10-00 +0200, you wrote: >Luggers >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. >Anybody know the answer? Greed, avarice and power always seemed to be perfectly reasonable answers to me. :^) ...spoken as a partner in an agency that HASN'T been bought out ...yet. Greg Locke St. John's, Newfoundland locke@picturedesk.org PICTUREDESK INTERNATIONAL ...news pictures ONLINE 1-800-340-4970 / http://www.picturedesk.org - ----------------------------------------------------------------------