Gilles Tran wrote:

> Of course, in the real world, food is actually more important that software, 
> now how does *that* compute? :P
> 
> (Also, I said that the Maersk group shipped bananas, but that was a joke; 
> indeed, they may ship more profitable stuff such as oil, cars and Chinese 
> Christmas toys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_M%C3%A6rsk; freight is a 
> gigantic business that made billionaires such as 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onassis, who was more famous than Bill Gates in 
> his time).

Now that makes more sense. I was wondering how the hell you could make 
any significant profile *just* by shipping bananas. If you'd said wheat 
or rice I'd have been more convinced... And if this one company actually 
ships all those different kinds of goods, I can see them making quite a 
lot of money.

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