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To: James Connolly who wrote (6783)	11/18/1999 5:44:00 AM
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How Ranting, Raving Larry Ellison Has Come to Look Like a Visionary thestreet.com Excerpt... Noting that the former Oracle subsidiary Network Computer, now called Liberate Technologies (LBRT:Nasdaq) and still controlled by Oracle, is worth $6 billion, Ellison remembers that Gates once harshly disparaged the network computer concept. Says Ellison: "Pretty good for a stupid idea." That sets Ellison off on a hilarious riff he calls Microsoft's "Four Stages of Stealing Someone Else's Idea": 1. Say it's the stupidest idea you've ever heard. 2. Acknowledge that there's some merit to offering easier-to-use products at lower prices, but insist PCs can do the job just as well. 3. Announce your own product, as Microsoft did this week with its Web Companion network computer. 4. Declare that "it was our idea in the first place. All we ask is the chance to innovate."