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To: Claude who wrote (16148)	2/17/1999 8:57:00 AM
From: ToySoldier	of 74651

Thanks Claude! Your posting provided me with one highlight - you wont respond to me anymore. How can a person take things completely out of context? Did you even read my posting. I will agree 100% with you on your Wordperfect description - BUT WHAT THE HECK IS THAT SUPPOSE TO PROVE? Did you even read the part that I mentioned that said some monopolies (sorry ED - for your sake - I consider MSFT's Windows OS a monopoly when it dominates 90%+ of the Intel desktop OS marketshare - I dont know what your definition is) are more powerful than others. The wordprocessing monopoly is not an easy one for any company to maintain since the VAST MAJORITY of other software and hardware products in the industry do not rely on it in any way. So, you are 100%, WordPerfect lost their monopoly (if they ever had one) because that is not an easy monopoly to hold. It is much less easy to hold when their competitor - who has the monopoly on the Desktop OS - is writing their code on their OS!!! Why didnt IBM buy MSFT and its OS? I think I have stated my opinion on this a thousand times - but just for you little buddy - because they little were politically discouraged from doing so. They just were coming out of anti-trust litigation themselves and likely they could not afford the heat in buying up a company that was starting to become the dominant OS of the Intel PC platform. Your naive myopic view of this situation proves that you dont look under the covers of why something really happens. (By the way - the ocean is more than just an inch deep - dont trust your eyes). But thanks for not responding to me anymore. Toy

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