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To: J. P. who wrote (19391)	5/19/1998 5:14:00 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (3) of 24154

Hi JP, The OEMs could have fought MSFT and sold some other OS...but what consumer OS? For all the naysaying out there, there is no better consumer OS than the windows family. Mac is good for children, but when you learn on a dos machine in college the mac looks like an artiste's computer. Besides, apple slit their own throats in the last war... it's true too that a competitor could replace windows in a day... if they could come up with something a lot better that had a great api set which they released....maybe whatever it is would be so good that releasing the apis wouldn't even be necessary, depending upon what this product were to be.... MSFT should be free to put any and every app into their os, and until there is something better which the OEMs can opt for, or until the desktop computing model is replace by this yet unknown new product (the one which could replace windows overnight), the app vendors and oems can deal with it. The oems can't be hurting that badly to have gone along with this for so long. Ed's right about Intel too.. where's this going to stop when MU and the others sue intel for too many integrated features on the processor? So i say the problem lies with the oems and the lack of something better. Maybe NSCP's Linux shell will be so compelling and easy-to-use that a couple of large OEMs will break ranks. For some government lawyer to be deciding how the computer industry should be run is assinine. Myself, i think the best model would be if the os were modularized, and the user could go to an internet site and download whatever modules they wanted, by whatever vendor. They could specify the same when going to an oem.... where's the modular os though? What kind of industry standards group would it take to get such a thing off the ground? Is the vendor with the fastest, most compatible java engine going to be the one providing the ultimate platform? FWIW Andy

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