Way to go, Bill Gates!

[mrhtbd]

Textbook case of bilge and profit.
Microsoft lays off 1400 workers and Gates gets a tax credit worth two billion, that's $2,000,000,000.

 

[Cruci]

Where did you read that?

 

[mrhtbd]

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/22/sad-day-for-microsoft-5000-laid-off-earnings-and-revenues-down/

Ok, I guess it was 1 billion.
http://www.businessinsider.com/obam...-billionaire-hundreds-of-millions-phew-2009-2

http://crosscut.com/2008/02/02/microsoft/11167/

Unrelated but interesting.
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtrader...tes-takes-52-ek-stake-a-look-at-his-holdings/