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

To: PMS Witch who wrote (43951)	4/30/2000 10:49:00 AM
From: techtonicbull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

The history of Gate's deal with IBM and the advantage Gates took of his "captive" audience in the introduction of successive versions of OS's over the years, is over. Period. He played his hand, to his and his stockholders advantage, now he must change. The game is over. The new "game", what is it? The "open" game! The innovative application! The innovative system! In summary, what is needed now is to bring innovation that truly helps the consumer. (not just a "Microsoft Tax" whenever a new PC is sold).

To: PMS Witch who wrote (43951)	4/30/2000 9:47:00 PM
From: tonyt	Respond to of 74651

And as part of that infamous contract, IBM paid MSFT per CPU, therefore if a consumer wanted an IBM PC with DRDOS, IBM would have to pay both DRI and MSFT, therefore, DRI couldn't compete with MSFT. <<A bit of history. Gates provided the OS for the IBM PC. The contract he negotiated with IBM allowed him to provide the same OS to other manufacturers; thus, the personal computer (clone) industry was born, freeing consumers from dealing with IBM exclusively; hence, Gates is a monopoly destroyer. (IBM's monopoly)>>