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To: qdog who wrote (38095)	8/17/1999 6:05:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Q currency would be valued by freely interacting hordes in what we could call a free market. So it would float against all other values. But, being well run, it would be increasingly attractive so would tend to rise in value against other measures of value. Somebody will do it. Mighty Q! seems best placed, sitting at the centre of the WWeb with the best encryption technology, Eudora, WirelessKnowledge, making the Globalstar and cdma2000 ASICs and the Anita [TM] devices, with big time capitalisation to back it up with some grunt. Now, back on MSFT. 90% is not a monopoly. 100% is a monopoly but not necessarily a good one. 100% has to have HUGE prices too to be a scary type monopoly. In these high tech days though, monopolies don't last long. $ill has had a very brief monopoly [not that he has really had one]. What choice do I have? Well, Apple has been around with their MacIntosh and so on for a couple of decades. There are heaps of ways of communicating and linking to the internet. There are heaps of email programs. Heaps of fax, spreadsheet, and other softwares. Heaps of encyclopedias, Slate equivalents, and anything you like. If there aren't heaps, anyone can go ahead and produce one if they think margins in that type of product are excessive. I bought OS2Warp a few years ago. There are other operating systems. Anyone can produce any of these types of products and that is the point. Everyone has a free choice. They can buy or not buy, produce or not produce any kind of software they please [while respecting copyright laws]. I heard that Linux is competing with $ill, which proves there is no monopoly in OS. How about that Java stuff the owner of which threatens to do $ill and MSFT in using it and network puters. When this Y2K joke is over, thousands of software engineers will get real jobs doing something more useful that putting 4 spaces where year 99 used to be. There won't be much problem there either - sure a few companies will go broke because they'll fail and their more careful competitors will get the business. Maybe some government departments will go on the blink - well let's hope Y2K lasts longer than a day or two in that case. By the way, when is this stupid stockmarket going to follow instructions and he Dow drop to 8314? It has got only a few days before 21 August. Maybe the launch date will need to slip to the right faster than Globalstar handset production and gateway rollout. Mqurice