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To: Prognosticator who wrote (22744)	11/10/1999 9:52:00 PM
From: Michael L. Voorhees	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Prog: you've got it. Thank goodness for SUNW, maybe we can get rid of these sterile, inferior MSFT standards and base our software on open standards.

To: Prognosticator who wrote (22744)	11/10/1999 11:06:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

In the last two days, I've heard radio ad spots keying in on "non-proprietary solutions - open solutions"<key words>. I forgot who the first one was, but the second was a Veritas reseller. The crunch is on. "Microsoft" doesn't have a valuable brand when they don't have this 'freedom to innovate (wink wink)' clause with the Government. It's SO 'over' for MSFT. The shift of 'hero' market capital even gonna make us dizzy. We have Wintel Cromagnons posting to this thread who just don't get how 'over' it is. Several of them are posting how SUNW is over valued - or how somehow MSFT is a buying op? This, based on future value of clustering, MSN.COM and a secret 'X-box' that augments the current desktop OS and Office license revenue? We have a first today with an 'Email virus' news item. What you're not hearing from some reports is that it's not the open standard HTML that's being exploited, it's M$ IE which is built into (HA!) Win98 and Win2000. There's a fellow Linuxer on the SI Linux thread (Thomas Watson) who has, for some time refered to Windows as a 'virus'. As it turns out, that's an amazingly accurate description. They've gone from being a toy operating system to being a DANGEROUS operating system. And *that's before getting into the concept that they want to CHARGE people for the privilege of BORROWING this crap (under the M$ EULA)! Soon, "Microsoft" is going to be used in reference to a: Legacy. b: proprietary (verb) and c: porn sites and apparently George W. Bush and the Republican National Committee. -JCJ