[antiRepublicrat]

The article lays it out pretty well.

But Microsoft isn’t the most obscenely rich company of all time. There are a lot of companies with a higher market cap, Exxon for example.

But go through history and adjust for inflation and other companies were insanely huge and powerful, like the Dutch East India Company. And I don’t think anything compares to the wealth of the Medici family’s bank in its heyday.

[Golden Eagle]

The article lays it out pretty well.

Ridiculous, it once again shows the Linux crowd trying to blame Microsoft for their own problems. Patents do exist, and the foreign-born Linux is not immune from US law if it is distributed here no matter who they want to point their crooked fingers at.

[JeffAtlanta]

But go through history and adjust for inflation and other companies were insanely huge and powerful, like the Dutch East India Company. And I don’t think anything compares to the wealth of the Medici family’s bank in its heyday.

I would think that Standard Oil would top them all.

[snowsislander]

And I don’t think anything compares to the wealth of the Medici family’s bank in its heyday.

How about the Fuggers? They also did well at amassing the ducats.