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To: SunSpot who wrote (44351)	5/5/2000 9:58:00 AM
From: Joseph Pareti	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

>, I just don't believe that the world >is working towards a proprietary future would you bet your business on linux ? >MSFT seems more and more >like a hot air balloon, but where >the stock price seems >to have fallen down to a reasonable level if 70 bucks is what you call a reasonale value, Yhoo should be $5

To: SunSpot who wrote (44351)	5/5/2000 2:13:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

SunSpot - I believe that the next important "layer" will be essentially a meta-layer where OS, storage, and other current infrastructure components are fungible and therefore not particularly important to developers. Likewise, current applications thinking will be last year's story as the important development moves to that higher level. Lots of people will be working that model. MSFT is hardly the lead player but they are also not out of the game.

To: SunSpot who wrote (44351)	5/5/2000 2:46:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

SunSpot: Was down at Best Buy this AM and looked at the myriad of competitive offerings being hawked on the Linux shelves. Can you imagine Red Hat had the nerve to offer the Linux Deluxe Package at 79.95 ($30 above the Judge Jackson approved price) when the standard only cost 29.95 . Buy the way how can they charge for something that comes to them free ( Perhaps the FTC should look into this gouging here). There were other Linux offerings filling in the gamut of that price range. If one did not like Linux there was always BEOS at 59.95. And then there was the venerable Mac O/S at about 100 bucks. So from what I could see there was plenty of O/S selection some cheap and some as outrageously expensive as MSFT's offerings.