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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (14276)	11/22/1997 6:03:00 AM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (2) of 24154

Reg, It is true that Microsoft is in the business of selling software. What is it selling with Internet Explorer though? Giving away non-innovative software for free is not exactly a paradigm shift (a high-brow way of saying "out with the old, in with the new"). Do you honestly believe the goal of IE freeware is to enhance Windows and not to capture the web browser market? It would be interesting to see how the free-market would react to IBM giving away OS/2 bundled with its Lotus SmartSuite. FREE high-quality OS and FREE high-quality office tools -- what could be better for the consumer than that? This would of course be ethical since they only wish to continue to ensure that Gen X'ers enjoy for years to come, the same old integrity and uniformity of the Big Blue Experience. > As a subtle reminder, the inventors of a technology are rarely the > ones that reap the financial benefits from it. This is due to allocation > of resources. Doesn't this go against the Regimodel concept of "R&D" expenditures driving corporate growth? Why invest in companies that throw their money away on R&D if it doesn't pay! Who does Boeing rely on for new aircraft innovations? Intel introduced the first general-purpose microprocessor and look how they have suffered. In your defence, I believe what you are really trying to say is that research activities such as industrial espionage offer a higher return per investment dollar than a more traditional approach to nurturing new products. Plagarize, plagarize, let no others' work evade your eyes. If Visicalc leads to Lotus leads to Excel then what is to keep Excel from leading to spreadsheet@www.companyX.com? Microsoft has to establish itself on the Internet or relegate itself to being a niche market of "stand-alone" software products. Sound familiar. Cheers, Norm

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