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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (98756)	3/16/2000 5:09:00 PM
From: ptanner	Respond to of 1570746

Dan <The box makers would no doubt love to have an alternative to Microsoft, but competition is quite hpothetical there; approximately speaking, free isn't cheap enough to compete with Windows.> Agree fully -- though this is unfortunate as competition drives innovation. Without competition, a vendor is competing against only its own history: need to create something new so everyone will upgrade. And the justice department finally figured out that MSFT is a monopoly? PT