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You might at least get the facts straight...
Ross Perot made his fortune with EDS way before outsourcing to India was in vogue. He made a a bunch of money when EDS went public in 1968. Again in 1984 when EDS was bought by General Motors. Then while he was a GM board member, he spoke his mind on how HE thought GM should be running and Roger Smith and other board members got their feathers ruffled to the point where in June 1986, GM bought him out for $700 million. He also made a lot of money doing real estate development in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. He put up the capital for Steve Jobs to start up NeXT Computer in 1986.
Oh and in 1988, he founded Perot Systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot#Business_career

Oh and BTW, EDS has it's own "EDS India" so they aren't really outsourcing to India, just moving jobs from USA to within the same company. I should know, I retired from them last year and several good friends were just downsized last week by "EDS, an HP company".
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Really!  Loverock Davidson | 09/30/08
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