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To: Ausdauer who wrote (5996)	6/11/1999 9:44:00 AM
From: David W. Tucker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Aus: A sincere thank you for all you efforts. [A little OT] From your paper on proprietary technology - "The notion of control, unthrottled market domination and creation of a sole vendor is, in my opinion, distasteful. I calls to mind such related concepts as anti-competitive spirit, intentional destruction of competitors, price fixing, and the like. It also risks the stagnation of further development of the core specifications unless done so to throw competitors off balance. This seems to be less than a healthy environment for innovation. Some will contend that such priviledges are owed to the company able to engineer a dominant, proprietary standard. This may be true, yet it also creates a great deal of animosity. The recent investigations on such Gorillas as Intel and Microsoft underscore the distaste that many harbor for such giants." It seems to me that based on this, Microsoft should eventually fail as an operating system provider and Linux should win. It's pretty much an open standard and thousands of people all over the world are working on developing it now. dave