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To: Tom Tallant who wrote (28904)	8/8/1999 6:09:00 PM
From: Sonny McWilliams	Respond to of 41369

Thanks for posting all those links. I had read most of those articles already. What I found really interesting is all those Msft posts where Msft holders think that we AOL shareholders have only OUR MONEY in mind and not what's in the interest of all of us. Free ISP. They think that AOL is making enough money just from advertising money. Maybe that will come true one day. AOL has already stated this would be their biggest income source evtl. Don't get me wrong. I am for free everything. gg. Especially free cable and they have plenty of advertisements. Why is it that all that stuff is not free in communications? Are Msft shareholders for free software? After all this would be good for us and now that we have internet they really could give all their stuff away and just live on advertising money. It looks to me like Msft is for all this free stuff because they are the underdog in this arena and are protecting their software. Yes Bell Atlantic went to 150 hrs a month from unlimited because it probably got too expensive for them. Lets open up everything and then everybody is in the same boat when it comes to competing for advertising. Advertising is the only thing that will make things free in certain areas. You can't live on air alone. Give me all this free stuff and I'll look for cos. to invest that make money. Well, I guess I AM a capitalist when it comes to my investment money. Sheesh. Looks like AOL has their work cut out with all this logic around. Sonny