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To: Mephisto who wrote (17675)	7/7/1999 6:41:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 64865

If Maytag washing machines tore up clothes as often as the MSFT OS crashes, destroys files and wastes our precious time, Congress would call hearings and demand that Maytag executives tell us what is wrong. Well, Maytag would just go out of business, as people would buy different brand washing machines. If Maytag were a monopoly though... -JCJ

To: Mephisto who wrote (17675)	7/7/1999 7:06:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Respond to of 64865

We need him or someone like him to protect us from the buggy and imperfect products that MSFT releases to the naïve public. While Nader is at it maybe he can protect EBAY from other buggy OS vendors too. When their iron goes down it costs $large. The most robust, powerful, and user friendly desktop has already been choosen - win98/NT; 80-85% of worldwide home and office desktops run it.