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To: American Spirit who wrote (15963)	6/21/1999 9:49:00 PM
From: LastShadow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 43080

"The movie made me think about Linux. What will Gates do about that? Can he buy it out? Can he steal from it? If so he will. " uhh...no, he can't buy it. Its free. Works great by the way. Had it on one machine acting as the server and firewall for the house for about three weeks and hasn't crashed once. I suppo0se you can make a lesson for money or vision or perserverence or creation, but maybe I just see it all a little differently. later. lastshadow

To: American Spirit who wrote (15963)	6/21/1999 9:53:00 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 43080

Well , if you go back to even earlier times of silicon valley, in the days of the micro-chip think-tanks, the same things involving the those start-up companies like INTEL, happened! Those were pretty incredible times, too! It's all going in an evolutionary/natural selection basis. Ie: what is faster, more convenient/user friendly,attracts the most Eyeballs & usage, and name recognition... This is what counts on the internet at large! what was fascinating in the earlier days of the chip/box/hardware days was the sharing of ideas, usually at a local bar, called the wagon-wheel, i think. There the engineers gathered and got drunk, and bragged about solving this or that problem od semiconduction, which the rival engineers picked up on, and so they went back to their respective (competing) labs, and just moved on! but there was always a need for capital, and silicon valley in the sixties had more venture capitalists per square inch than any where on earth! Now they don't need it! LOL! But the collaborations persist, and the mergers will go on. Like the collaboration of MSFT & QCOM, for wireless! good pick on COMS, I picked up that one too, and the little IBIZ! 2MAR$