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

To: RTev who wrote (33804)	11/11/1999 6:43:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 74651

RTev: It was the former Mosaic team at Jim Clark's Netscape who shattered that vision by proposing a unique way to tie the desktop together with an open-protocol tool, the browser, using the open-standards internet to tie it all together. Yes that is the Jim Clark that came to MSFT and said let's make a deal. When confronted with that episode in the trial he couldn't remember. Since as you admit the that the browser is based on an open standard then perhaps NSCP was ripping off the consumer by charging for it. You might say, well no because they added functonality and one would have to say true but not at a great cost. Unfortunately they gave up on the functionality improvements when competition arrived and ran to the DOJ in the person of Barksdale. Clark indeed was the original visionary indeed but he like many that have come against Gates and MSFT abandoned whatever vision they had while MSFT ran away with it to another level. Go MSFT! JFD