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Article #632885Re: Richest People in the World
From: da... David B. Greene
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 00:00
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ha...@programmer.net (Han) wrote: >"Imran Ghory" <Imr...@btinternet.com> wrote: >>David B. Greene <da...@antispam.halcyon.com> wrote: >>> hans-...@michna.com (Hans-Georg Michna) wrote: >Many of the world's richest have lots of assets. >But what Bill Gates have is more than enough assets. >This guy is perhaps more powerful than Bill Clinton some day. >He is already in control of the world-wide software market on computer >desktops and he's moving into server areas with Windows NT. >Give him another 10 years, it will be difficult to imagine what >awesome power he has beyond the computer software industry as our >civilization grows more and more dependent on software to run. What happened to Gates's plan to circle the globe with satellites? >>> >Name______________ 1997 (1996) >>> >Bill Gates (US) 36.4 (18.0) >>> >Warren Buffet (US) 23.2 (15.3) >>> >Paul Allen (US) 15.3 (7.5) >>> >Lee Shau Kee (HK) 14.7 (12.7) >>> >Kwok Brothers (HK) 12.3 (11.2) >>> >K. Thomson (Can) 11.0 (7.4) >>> >Li Ka-Shing (HK) 11.0 (10.6) >>> >Y. Tsutsumi (Japan) 8.0 (9.2) >>> >Steven Ballmer (US) 7.5 (3.7) >Han >The SmartWare Shop Dave Greene
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From: da...@antispam.halcyon.com (David B. Greene) Subject: Re: Richest People in the World Date: 1997/08/20 Message-ID: <5tdtqk$94i@nntp5.u.washington.edu> X-Deja-AN: 268050418 References: <5r6urs$jiu$4@alpha.wright.edu> <33D82506.446B@uwindsor.ca> <daria-2607971705120001@pine009210.nuts.nwu.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.91.970727102500.5759A-100000@chebucto.ns.ca> <5rji3l$6np$1@news1.atlantic.net> <33DE31D0.582D@transatlan.com> <33df9bf7.32236416@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> <33E19B5C.794B@uwindsor.ca> <33e34ddb.17065142@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> <33eb2b57.7666764@news.nuc.net> <33EC4BB2.52D1@dial.pipex.com> <33ec5199.6211631@snews.zippo.com> <Pine.SUN.3.91.970809172351.1811A-100000@chebucto.ns.ca> <33ed8b24.6884208@snews.zippo.com> <5t4jpl$t3o@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <01bcaa7f$9153fba0$LocalHost@default> <33f6dcc8.6488740@news.singnet.com.sg> Organization: Northwest Nexus Reply-To: da...@antispam.halcyon.com Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa,uk.org.mensa,de.org.mensa,alt.folklore,urban,alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc,alt.nuke.the.USA,soc.culture.europe,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.singapore,alt.fan.bill-gates,alt.destroy.microsoft,seattle.general MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit