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To: David Kelly who wrote (29968)	4/3/2000 8:23:00 PM
From: fuzzymath	Respond to of 64865

I agree in many, many ways! MSFT wanted to rule the world. They failed, and miserably, and now things are beginning to fall apart in the marketplace, I think. It doesn't matter if the item is free or not. Nothing's free, right? "Buy 2, get 1 free!" "Buy item A, get lower priced item B for free!" "Buy XYZ from store A, get a coupon for a free burger at McDonalds!" Are all these trying to tell us we're getting something for free? Yes. Are we? Technically, yes. Are these offers illegal? No. MSFT wanted to kill Java: adopt it, warp it beyond recognition, then drop it. Know what, MSFT is DUMB! They thought that just because they wanted to rule the world, the world would bend to their wishes. It didn't. It won't. Their empire is in decline. It was declining before today, before this past year. The desktop owned by the operating system is going away. Corporate portals and hand held devices and who knows what are the wave of the future. MSFT isn't there, and they don't know how to get there. They're falling behind, maybe because they spent too much time strategizing how to control the world instead of innovating to keep ahead of the world. With Internet Explorer they succeeded, because they had DUMBER, even more COCKY competition (Netscape). With Java, guess what: they failed miserably, because we're sitting on the thread of a better innovator who tries to succeed by innovating instead of trying to manipulate the marketplace in order to subvert its competition. MSFT tried to manipulate the marketplace. The marketplace said: NO, sorry Bill, see ya later! We didn't need a court case here. The decision has already been made. Netscape was dumb, SUNW and Oracle aren't. It troubles me a bit that they joined in on this -- but the marketplace gave its own verdict before the judge did. How many copies of Windows 2000 have you bought? Kevin