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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14223)11/19/1997 1:27:00 PM
From: Larry Sullivan  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
We're talking about a company that achieved its dominant position by ruthless and aggressive business practices and not by innovation.

This innovation thing sorta sticks in my craw! I mean lets be reasonable - most of the computing industries history is more about improving on ideas (your own and the other guys) in an evolutionary way not radical revolution and what I perceive Nader saying about innovation seems to me to be the single item that makes him less credible. Only because this refrain seems to be straight from the MS haters camp and not from unbiased reflection. For instance name some new product categories that have emerged in the last 10 years or so. There are some but not that many. The article you posted on the industries history was very interesting because it pointed out that most of the successful companies copied something successful and then worked to improve on it. I think that someone would be very naive (OT - Evian water is naive spelled backward - there may be something to that) to state categorically that Microsoft is not innovative and company X is. I think in many cases you could figure out what concepts they borrowed and where they made improvements. I don't think that this is bad it is just the way science works. We all stand on the sholders of those that did the work before.

Larry...
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