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To: Tom Kearney who wrote (83354)	11/6/1999 9:27:00 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

greatly exagerrated, not suprising, from the seriously technology-challenged British!

To: Tom Kearney who wrote (83354)	11/7/1999 7:54:00 AM
From: Olu Emuleomo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

>>>''Each time America spawns a truly world-class company, the country's politicians, regulators, and a sprinkling of unsuccessful competitors rise up, determined to put an end to such commercial success,' Bennett said. <<< That's why Europe is slipping further and further behind the US. Remember IBM? They were the King of both hardware and software. They created their own character set, EBCDIC; largely ignoring ASCII. That's like Xerox creating their own paper or Kodak creating their own proprietary film! Does anybody really think we would have a Microsoft or an Intel if IBM had not been sued for antitrust? --Olu E.