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To: Joe NYC who wrote (108705)	5/1/2000
From: Mani1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571927

Jozef re <<Let's stick with the subject. Mani's claim was that consumers were hurt in the browser wars.>> That is not what I said. I said MSFT has been hurting consumer by using its monopoly to get rid of competition in other sectors. If Microsoft is indeed successful in fully destroying Netscape (they have not been so far, but they could be soon), then consumer will be hurt very much. If Netscape has accepted MSFT's proposal to split the market, browser's would cost a pretty Penney. Mani

To: Joe NYC who wrote (108705)	5/1/2000 8:49:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1571927

Jozef, I see Mani made a comment and it seems we are on a diverging course. As you say the price is high to develop software, yet MSFT enters at a lower price? Whence cometh this ability? Cross subsidization? From whence cometh the means? from the OS monopoly? As they say "guilty as charged" We all get forced to wear MSFT drab brown s the ever growing repertoire of goods in the OS/Browser/Appsuites dominate the software ecology......MSFT, the weed is ruining the garden, now we have the DOJ with Killex. Bill

To: Joe NYC who wrote (108705)	5/1/2000 1:53:00 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571927

Dear Jozef: You had better check those prices. Word Perfect was about $90, Lotus was about $150 if you got if right after it came with a new version, and dBase costed about $50 to $125 depending on what you wanted. You could get packages that had all three, generally for $250, and sometimes they were given "Free" with a new computer. This was at the same time as Office costing $600 plus. The $299 was for an upgrade. For the same, $100 to $150 for upgrades to all three. MOst of the cost was for manuals and media. Sometimes it took 30 to 50 floppies for some suites, and two or three loose leaf manuals (better than book bound in my opinion). Pete