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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bob Drzyzgula who wrote (32611)	11/7/1999 3:07:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

BD: Good technical points. I sense however that you have been "harmed" (annoyed might be better word) as a competitor rather than as a consumer. The real point is that once you get out of the technical minutia there are significant problems in redressing what you suggest is the sin of MSFT. Why should MSFT take their cue from the competition or the government. Once again you are putting the Lilliput and the judge in charge of designing MSFT products. Let's suppose that Lilliput A feels that MSFT is cheating them by altering X and Lilliput B is crying foul over MSFT's execution of Y then MSFT's product but doesn't agree with Lilliput A's complaint. MSFT's product then becomes a creation of a reaction to complaints with the bizarre thought that a judge might have to be brought into the mix. Talk about stifling innovation- whoa! You will say that they should adhere to certain standards. Does Unix and all its flavors do that? No but that is what the Coding Finn wants to be the master of the code. You strike me as a techie who sees everything through the prism of your very narrow field and have been at odds with MSFT for various technical reasons that is of no more concern to the consumer than GM selecting one type of braking system over another. Robert McNamara was a big proponent of commonality and the FB111 was the result and it wasn't very common either. It was too big for the Navy and didn't really do what the Air Force wanted but the gov't. shoved it down the throat of both services under the guise of standardization. If MSFT goes to far afield in their implementation of accepted norms the market place will recognize this and either get rid of the MSFT O/S or create a company built on the solution that overcomes the deficiencies in MSFT's code. The that company will probably be bought out by MSFT. That is the way things work in the US. They don't work by the government calling the shots. This is the USA not the USSR. Of course the government did build the A and H bombs. Let us leave them to those chores and keep them out of the free market place arena. JFD