As part of a plan announced Tuesday to [u][color=#0000ff]distribute $75 billion to shareholders[/color][/u] during the next four years, stockholders will receive a one-time dividend of $3 per share. As the company’s largest stockholder, with 1.1 billion shares, Gates stands to earn about $3 billion.
I don’t think anyone gets it. FIRST, how many middle class people do you think have shares in Microsoft? The people that have shares in Microsoft already are making tons. SECOND, no I am not a Macintosh fanatic ! I know Bill is just giving more money to his fat cats, shareholders.
I think so - this is an extra $3 billion that he would not have gotten had it not been for MS’s latest share buyback/dividend thing. He still has a comfortable lead over Warren Buffet
Axel - that would mean that all wealthy people in the country would give away that much. Bill Gates has given away more than $30 billion of his money over the years to help fight AIDS, help vaccinate 3rd world children, and he also helps out a lot of inner city schools and libraries get internet access, offers scholarships, and more!
If you think that he is doing all this for a tax write off, no offense, but that idea is simply naive. About making shareholders money…that’s what ALL corporations do
I know what he’s doing is nice, or nicer than nice, but I still don’t like the guy. Maybe its just because he’s the “leader of the evil corporation Micro$oft”.