[clug] Microsoft Has Acquired GitHub

[Tony Marzano]

George, 
This topic of conversation reminds me of this story

http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/microsoft_buys_the_catholic_church/

I know it's off topic but I hope that people on the CLUG list find this blast from the past amusing.

Tony 

-----Original Message-----
From: "George at Clug via linux" <linux at lists.samba.org>
Sent: ‎7/‎06/‎2018 20:23
To: "CLUG List" <linux at lists.samba.org>
Subject: Re: [clug] Microsoft Has Acquired GitHub

What Is the Main Goal of a Publicly-Owned Company? [1]
by Neil Kokemuller

The main goal of virtually every publicly-owned company has always
been to maximize shareholder value by generating as much profit as
possible.


Leopards and spots [2]...





https://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/worse_than_wal_mart_amazons_sick_brutality_and_secret_history_of_ruthlessly_intimidating_workers/



http://www.dw.com/en/amazon-criticized-over-temp-workers-in-germany/a-16604526

http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/19/technology/h-1b-visas-tech-hiring/index.html



https://www.crn.com.au/news/microsoft-google-amazon-facebook-apple-and-ibm-challenge-trump-on-immigration-476685



https://www.recode.net/2018/1/23/16919424/apple-amazon-facebook-google-uber-trump-white-house-lobbying-immigration-russia



Make what you want of the above articles...


George.





On Wednesday, 06-06-2018 at 20:53 George at Clug wrote:


 
https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-github-for-7-5-billion/


https://fossbytes.com/microsoft-acquired-github-developers-not-happy/ 



Links:
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[1]
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/main-goal-publiclyowned-company-25064.html
[2] https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/226350.html
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