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To: Frederick Smart who wrote (44199)	5/3/2000 12:08:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 74651

Fredrick - your "cosmic" viewpoint is not grounded in fact. MSFT does indeed believe in "growing the pie" - it has been a fundamental part of their business model since the company was founded. At the start of the PC era, CPQ was the first to "reverse engineer" the BIOS, a key part of the ability to "clone" the PC. MSFT talked CPQ into making that BIOS widely available rather than keeping it for themselves, which helped enable the whole industry. MSFT has consistently taken the position that developing volume is good for everyone. More PCs means more common parts, a bigger market for everyone in the business. This was, of course, with the understanding that MSFT would get the biggest share of that market... but the whole thing was based on the idea of "growing the pie". Your post shows a sad lack of understanding of the history and development of the current industry. Your advocacy of the nonsense put out by Parish is equally naive. The facts are well documented, this is not a matter of opinion.