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To: bobby beara who wrote (44793)	4/3/2000 9:18:00 PM
From: dclapp	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 99985

dear bb, besides investing, I start tech companies. you said: THUS stifling other companies that may be able to specialize in a section of software and do a much better job than msft. Oh? With a team of programmers in India, we developed Internet videoconferencing software -- damn good stuff. But because Microsoft was (and still is) giving away "NetMeeting" for free...we couldn't get financing to bring the product to market. Now, two years later, NetMeeting still doesn't have the frame rate or video quality that WE achieved in a beta release...but...we got nuked by Microsoft. How many stories are like this? Many. Thanks for the great post...one of many great posts, bb. Best, Doug

To: bobby beara who wrote (44793)	4/3/2000 10:58:00 PM
From: sandeep	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 99985

Bobby, your arguments are wrong. If the OS needs certain functionality to improve it, this functionality needs to be added to the OS - like Browser, Speech recognition etc. You simply cannot leave the implementation of such technology to other software manufacturers in the hope that all your customers will buy that functionality from other software vendors. E.g. you would be forcing every blind person to first find the vendor and then buy text-to-speech technology just because Microsoft shouldn't be allowed to "own" this little jewel in your model. This is unfair to Microsoft. Sounds socialistic to me. The OS vendor, in this case Microsoft, has a good idea of how his OS should interact with a standard text-to-speech API and would implement the API and interface it with the OS and ship with it. IT MUST THEN PUBLISH the API so that this specialized vendor of yours can make sure that his specialized software can replace Microsoft's "Crummy" implementation. In the case of the browser, this is possible. You have NO CASE.