# When you steal 9 million dollars from Bill Gates what do you spend it on? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 13, 2002, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-steal-9-million-dollars-from-bill-gates-what-do-you-spend-it-on/142432 "2002-12-13T04:35:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Magickly\_Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magickly\_Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magickly_Delicious)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-steal-9-million-dollars-from-bill-gates-what-do-you-spend-it-on/142432/21 "2002-12-14T02:06:55Z")
Pie is gooooood. ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-steal-9-million-dollars-from-bill-gates-what-do-you-spend-it-on/142432/22 "2002-12-14T07:41:17Z")
Just in the interest of accuracy: “SEATTLE (AP) — In a Dec. 12 story about the arrest of Microsoft employee Daniel Feussner, The Associated Press erroneously reported that investigators said he sold stolen software for $9 million. That figure is actually the estimated retail value of the stolen software. A federal prosecutor said it was sold at reduced prices, but investigators did not provide an amount.” Still, had to have been a pretty good sum. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-steal-9-million-dollars-from-bill-gates-what-do-you-spend-it-on/142432/23 "2003-04-03T23:55:27Z")
Follow up to this story can be found [here](http://www.boston.com/dailynews/092/nation/Med_Examiner_Microsoft_manager:.shtml). Seems Mr. Feussner died from drinking anti-freeze. Can anyone else picture Mr. Gates paying him a visit with Guido and “convincing” him to drink the anti-freeze? ---
**Author:** ![WillSantini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@WillSantini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillSantini)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-steal-9-million-dollars-from-bill-gates-what-do-you-spend-it-on/142432/24 "2003-04-04T00:24:09Z")
Guido is a funny name. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-steal-9-million-dollars-from-bill-gates-what-do-you-spend-it-on/142432/25 "2003-04-04T00:29:06Z")
I’d give most of it to orphanages and when he came after me with the lawyers it would look bad for him. ---
**Author:** ![Meros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Meros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meros)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-steal-9-million-dollars-from-bill-gates-what-do-you-spend-it-on/142432/26 "2003-04-04T00:31:16Z")
I’m with **DreadCthulu**. I’d buy a bunch of X-Boxes (M$ loses money on each and every one of them), install Linux and make a massive Beowulf cluster out of them…then to make it even more fun I’d donate it all to Google to expand their crawling clusters 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-steal-9-million-dollars-from-bill-gates-what-do-you-spend-it-on/142432.md?page=1)