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To: The Phoenix who wrote (13737)	4/30/1998 4:21:00 PM
From: James A. Shankland	Read Replies (1) of 77400

Don't these fools [DOJ] understand that a common platform is required to maintain the integrity of the net and to maintain compatibility between desktops and servers... Agree completely. We should also have only one brand of car. The mind boggles at the staggering inefficiency of having all these different car brands, each with its own catalog of spare parts and gratuitous incompatibilities. How many accidents result from someone using a car not their own, and finding controls in different places? If we all drove the same car, it would be uniformly perceived to be of excellent quality, as no-one would have anything to compare it against. This is a good thing. In my opinion, Microsoft should simply buy the entire Internet outright. Lord knows they're rich enough to do so, and they'd be performing a valuable public service. Think about the advantages of conformity! Sure, the whole Internet would have to be rebooted every few days, but that's a small price to pay for true interoperability. Open standards will never work as well as a de facto standard unilaterally defined by a huge corporation that has our best interests at heart. That's my modest proposal, anyway.

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