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To: lkj who wrote (33233)	6/25/1999 3:12:00 PM
From: Ramsey Su	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

The Internet needs someone to push for new standards and technology. There is no one that can do it better than Microsoft and Bill Gates. Khan, that is absolutely no one worse than Bill Gates for what you envision. What IBM and Xerox gave $Bill is a once in a century event. Do you really think that with people McNeally, Ellison, Case, Su and others, Gates really stand a chance to dominate anything again? MSFT can come up with the greatest standard and no one will adopt it just because of Gates. Don't forget MSFT is a great copier, not innovator, despite of what Bill Gates wants you to belief. It is really doubtful that anything creative will ever come out of the corporate environment in Redmond. QCOM is the monopoly of the future, not MSFT. Ramsey by the way, the "professor" said that Khan's RealNetworks post is right on-target.

To: lkj who wrote (33233)	6/26/1999 2:47:00 AM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

lkj - OT - The Internet needs someone to push for new standards and technology. There is no one that can do it better than Microsoft and Bill Gates. Actually, if you do any programming at all, you discover that no one does it worse than Microsoft. Their whole goal is to disrupt standards since standards put all players on a more equal footing. Java is, of course, the latest and most famous example, but it is nowhere near the only one. (In Java most of the benefit is standardization and the resulting write-once-run-anywhere and Microsoft intentionally attempted to disrupt that by ignoring the standard.) FWIW Clark PS It is true that the threat of Microsoft has probably forced the rest of the industry to attempt standardization more so than they otherwise would have as a method of combating the giant. But that is like saying WW II was good because it resulted in the UN.