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To: Gerald Walls who wrote (25024)	6/29/1999 10:20:00 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

>>Government orders Rearden Steel to provide formula to competitors and to abide by set shares of production. << Oh, the Ayn Rand analogy is played again. So tell me, to be fair did Reardon Steel have its own proportion of animal rights activists, "environmentalists," gun control nuts, wealth redistribution advocates, and statists of every stripe such as can be found at MSFT? How about marketers and lawyers? What was the Reardon Steel equivalent of GLEAM?... GLERS? The analogy doesn't work so why don't you quit using it? The real problem with the MSFT business model is that it puts programmers high above product support people. Product support is the key, especially in an organization where so many of the developers are mediocre. FWIW Andy