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To: Joe NYC who wrote (38092)	8/17/1999 12:46:00 AM
From: Uncle Frank	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

>> It's like the MSFT management dropped out of kindergarden in rush to make money at any price. They missed out on great things you learn there, like how to be polite, how to play fair, that you are supposed to flush. Very well phrased, Jozef. From your comments I would guess that you are a student or an academician. Please don't think me cynical, but I wouldn't rate gentlemanly behavior very highly as a survival trait in today's world of high tech business. Based on your ownership of them, I presume you characterize NSM in that manner, but I can assure you that, having competed with them, they are as hard as nails when they have the upper hand. All companies are; that's Business 101. Companies are good when they make a useful product, afford their employees the chance to earn a good living and benefits, provide a good return to their shareholders, and are law abiding. Until such time as Judge Jackson rules otherwise, qcom, nsm, AND msft are all good guys in my book. Frank

To: Joe NYC who wrote (38092)	8/17/1999 7:52:00 AM
From: JohnG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Jozef. Ref: MSFT. I get so tired of hearing people attack MSFT for their ruthless tactics. The software companies doing this are just disappointed that their own ruthless tactics didn't work so well. Please draw a distinction between tactics that injure competitors and tactics that injure the citizens of the US. As for the Citizens on the US, the boom we have been enjoying since 1992 is more due to MSFT's excellent success than any other one thing. The government's proper roll is to protect the citizens of the US from anticompetitive activities. It isn't to protect companies from their competitors. MSFT set standards which gave the computer industry direction. It benefited when a value chain formed around MSFT and its standards. This is a natural phenomenon that happens to hi tech gorilas. I've been using puters since the TRS-80 was first sold. Back then software, hardware and periferals were both expensive and incompatible. Now they are not. And all of this has happened at the speed of light primarily due to MSFT. So fast that WINTEL has made the US the GIANT in the industry and provided the greatest entrepraneural/venture capital boom in the history of the world. Poor Netscape had no God given right to profit perpetually form the "external file server" they call their invention. They are a bunch of whining loosers whose best business strategy was to run crying to uncle sam and clain MSFT gave them a bo bo. Their mgt is disgusting. JohnG