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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (7395)	2/17/1998 1:58:00 AM
From: damniseedemons	Read Replies (4) of 27307

Gates made a costly mistake by zeroing out Netscape's market. Every Windows or Internet platform-related market they enter now will be scrutinized. You know Bill, I still think that's totally unfair to punish a company for being too successful. With the rumblings of a "vastly-extended" anti-trust suite about to be filed, that is what this is all boiling down to. It's funny, everyone ridicules and criticizes IBM for being too fat and slow for missing industry shifts and allowing other companies to take over the leadership role. Microsoft prides itself on staying nimble enough to remain king of the hill--but what everyone (the government, the tech industry, etc.) wants now is for Microsoft slow down as IBM did. Scrutinizing every move that Microsoft makes and passing laws which stop them from innovating and moving into young markets will force them to becoming IBM of the 90s. Microsoft still thinks and behaves like a small startup company--a corporate culture that should win them awards at their size. Any startup can do the things they do (like "product integration" and using their hard-earned franchise as a stepping-stone as well as fall-back). But once you get past a certain size, I guess, it all becomes illegal? I'm confused... Make no mistake, the DOJ is certainly "picking" on Microsoft by scrutinizing anything and everything they do. Too bad Microsoft can't file an antitrust suite against the government: "they run everything!" Yeah yeah, we've dedicated an entire thread to this, I know. But I still think Netscape got what they deserved: they picked a fight with a bully--even kicked him in the balls--and they got their butts kicked in return. And their other critical mistake was pretending to not care about the client/consumer markets; "duh, we're gonna be a server company!" Of course, I do have to fault Microsoft for not batting and eyelash before making so many enemies. It's to the point now where it's fashionable for governments (from state to foriegn governments) to investigate Microsoft. Where it's "cool" for techies to be anti-Microsoft. They've got a serious problem to deal with.

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