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To: rudedog who wrote (21543)11/18/1998 4:33:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
Unfortunately MSFT is hardly the leader here - the cable companies are way ahead of Bill in terms of clever hidden taxes.

Don't go bringing up the cable guys, rudedog- I had it in for them long before I understood the integrity and uniformity of the Windows experience. Nobody could accuse them of being politically naive - first get all the cosy monopoly franchise agreements set up, then go over local government's heads to Congress and get themselves deregulated. Plus they bought up all the programming sources during the sleepwalking Reagan antitrust era. TCI is supposed to be quite the expert at strong arm tactics too, whenever franchise renewal time comes around.

Then there's the RBOCs, who want to figure out how to leverage their monopoly into the cable market while maintaining the phone service monopoly. If somebody could figure out how to get those two sets of crooks to actually compete with each other, I'd be a happy camper. Heck, I'd be relatively happy if either my phone company or cable company would get around to offering cable modems or DSL at reasonable rates locally. I'm supposed to live in one of the internet service hotbeds of the country, but no concrete plans on either from TCI or Ameritech, that I've heard of.

You know Bob Metcalfe? Ever read his infoworld column? A guy after my own heart, equal disdain for all monopolists.

Cheers, Dan.
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