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To: J. P. who wrote (33634)	11/10/1999 11:30:00 AM
From: Matteo	Respond to of 74651

Can someone comment on today's webcast, having trouble opening it with mpfull file the msft website suggested I download. Thanks in advance

To: J. P. who wrote (33634)	11/10/1999 11:31:00 AM
From: Frederick Smart	Respond to of 74651

To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (28835) From: Frederick Smart Wednesday, Nov 10 1999 11:24AM ET Reply # of 28862 Road Less Travelled... >>I remember reading the book "A Road Less Travelled" as a kid, and the most incredible things that I got out of that book was that learning only comes through failure. There is no way for Microsoft, or any other software company, to understand the "holes" in their products, except by trying and failing.>> Scott: Gosh, but this learning is so incredibly messy. Why can't the Chaos Gods ever get their act together? Wouldn't it be better to simply guard our vunerabilities and let our failures hide out in secret? Nope. For true learning to take place, failure has to be a public good. We must broadcast our failures. Send them up inside the Saturn 5 rocket, even land them on the moon now and then. For learning that's done in secret is selfishly slow and of limited value. Throughout it's history Microsoft has encourged a reckless culture of controlled failure. Bill and Steve have created a well disciplined machine which creates fear and breeds ferocious competition for resources as it retains total control of the underlying code. I liken the stifling impact of Gates and Balmer's DOS/Windows bundle to the same thing going on with vintage 50's cars in Cuba. Amazing how resourceful the Cubans have been keeping these cars going all these years. The only thing Gates and Balmer lack are the green fatiques. "Microsoft's PC Revolution" hasn't gone too far beyond Windows shores. And if as this "revolution" spread elsewhere, it did so only in the spirit of control which communism thrived on, for Microsoft wants to control the inputs, resources and outcomes. Pure and simple, Microsoft is like Russia. BIG, mighty, full of resources, but unless it's broken up it won't be able to survive this next phase. The fall of Communism left a void for the legal infrastructure to support freedom, property ownership, contracts and other basic rules of law just weren't developed yet. So the Mafia moved in. We are at the same stage in technology today. There is a HUGE void right now which the Federal Government could fill. The question I have: Will Uncle Sam become the information mafia of this new age? A very valid point to consider. It's a shame this is happening when the third leg of freedom coming from the open source movement hasn't found it's legs quite yet for the app platform of choice is still overwhealmingly Windows. Now if Microsoft is broken up and the Windows OS source code is made public, then I think we will see the flowering of this movement toward open source and the REAL revolution could begin in earnest far beyond the PC and technology in general. A ton of new investment will enter the marketplace. The Baby Bills will be great investments. This will be a huge green light for the open source movement. Everyone on the same, level playing field. I sincerely believe that in this "next game" technology will become more and more transparent. The New Model will be all about vision, energy, passion and spirit. Gaining people's time and trust. Making the world into a better place. Hold it on the fatiques Bill and Steve. Counter the US Government virtual land grab: Break up Microsoft. Give away the source code. Clean up the accounting mess in the process. Come clean. Open up your wallets. Do good. And sit back and watch the world become a better place. Follow "the Road Less Travelled." Give it up guys. Let it go! Peace. GO!!