[Gllug] EU patents

Pete Ryland pdr at pdr.cx
Tue Jul 1 08:33:13 UTC 2003


On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:55:29AM +0100, Alistair Mann wrote:
> CTTOI, I think I'll invest some money in Microsoft too: it's not like they
> need anymore, [...]

When you buy shares in a company, you are buying them off someone else
(unless the company is raising capital with an IPO), so the company doesn't
actually benefit from your money at all.

Pete

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