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To: mozek who wrote (44560)	5/9/2000 2:03:00 AM
From: ProDeath	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

"There are a lot of people at Microsoft innovating." Funny, it doesn't show in their products, which by and large seem to be buggy second-rate knockoffs of something someone else did well. I wouldn't worry about the U.S. software industry remaining competitive. It is in fine health notwithstanding the efforts of MS to destroy competition and stifle change. BTW, you can save the appeal to nationalism for your next militia meeting. It's pathetic.

To: mozek who wrote (44560)	5/9/2000 8:46:00 AM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Companies are Irrelevant..... >>Did you see the recent news that people are calling for government investigation into AOL's alleged instant messaging monopoly? Sure! Why not? AOL doesn't innovate. We've got nothing to lose. How about going after Cisco, Intel, Sun, and all of the US high tech winners until we can't compete with our foreign counterparts. I really hope that the recent attack on Microsoft, one characterized by such statements, does not end with a legal catastrophe where US companies routinely spend more time and energy on political and legal jockeying/overhead than on research and development.>> mozek: INDIVIDUALS are claiming/exercising more of their rights in a growing number of value-oriented areas: privacy, family, access, etc. These "brand dams" are being arbitraged away as a growing number of INDIVIDUALS pick up their boats, tools, skills, time and trust....walk AROUND the dam and place themselves into the REAL River of Life: embracing more risk, trusting more, ACTING more as they lay claim to realize more of their core values in life with others doing the same. Companies like Microsoft that DON'T "see" this will find more and more of their talent walk around the dam and move into new waters. Note it's the same "water" just without the restrictions, control, power, politics and branding, etc. The DOJ case has caught Microsoft frozen like a python in headlights on hot pavement. It's over. Gates and Balmer would have to concede, open up, forgive and admit to something, anything to break this "lock" which will destroy them. Peace. GO!!

To: mozek who wrote (44560)	5/9/2000 12:11:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Did you see the recent news that people are calling for government investigation into AOL's alleged instant messaging monopoly? Sure. Why not. Between AIM and ICQ AOL has a 90% market share in the IM market, along with a very large portion of the ISP market, and they took extremely non-competitive actions last fall when the actually changed their software more than once to break competitors software designed to work with AIM. To not go after AOL (I own some Time Warner, BTW) with the same enthusiasm with which they attacked MSFT would be inexcusable.