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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Corbis and Bill Gates question.
From: Krechtz@aol.com
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 18:12:09 EDT
 
In a message dated 10/5/00 4:44:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
locke@straylight.ca writes:

<< >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. :^) >>

Hard to believe Ted Turner is just standing by watching it happen.

Joe Sobel