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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (58777)	6/12/2001 8:11:00 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) of 74651

It is myth in your mind that Microsoft costs consumers dearly. If you want to see how much it costs to use Microsoft products, just divide MSFT's annual revenues by the number of its customers. Then, for fun, add in whatever it would have been worth to you to have all of the excellent alternative products that Microsoft had squished because they were strategically threatening to them. Don't forget to count products that were marginalized by Microsoft's reverse engineers, anticompatibility engineers, and bundling schemes. Include Java, Macintosh, every good cross-platform development system (but what good xplatform IDE is there, you ask? exactly), Netscape, the entire cross-platform networking market, WebTV's Personal Java, etc. etc. It ain't cheap. Dave

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