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To: Joe NYC who wrote (38092)8/17/1999 7:52:00 AM
From: JohnG  Read Replies (2) of 152472
 
Jozef. Ref: MSFT. I get so tired of hearing people attack MSFT for their ruthless tactics. The software companies doing this are just disappointed that their own ruthless tactics didn't work so well. Please draw a distinction between tactics that injure competitors and tactics that injure the citizens of the US. As for the Citizens on the US, the boom we have been enjoying since 1992 is more due to MSFT's excellent success than any other one thing. The government's proper roll is to protect the citizens of the US from anticompetitive activities. It isn't to protect companies from their competitors.

MSFT set standards which gave the computer industry direction. It benefited when a value chain formed around MSFT and its standards. This is a natural phenomenon that happens to hi tech gorilas.

I've been using puters since the TRS-80 was first sold. Back then software, hardware and periferals were both expensive and incompatible. Now they are not. And all of this has happened at the speed of light primarily due to MSFT. So fast that WINTEL has made the US the GIANT in the industry and provided the greatest entrepraneural/venture capital boom in the history of the world.

Poor Netscape had no God given right to profit perpetually form the "external file server" they call their invention. They are a bunch of whining loosers whose best business strategy was to run crying to uncle sam and clain MSFT gave them a bo bo. Their mgt is disgusting.

JohnG
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