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To: TigerPaw who wrote (4396)	5/19/2000 8:18:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

<...it shows that a for-profit software competitor to Microsoft cannot survive.> TP, I don't know many software products but here are a few which seem to be doing just fine against Microsoft: Eudora vs Outlook britannica.com vs Encarta Various spreadsheets vs whatever MSFT offers Cellphone operating systems vs PC operating systems Quake vs MSFT Golf game Linux vs Windows 95 and 98 [Linux is for profit - I heard Red Hat makes money from it and even if products don't make profit, they are still competitors...for example you are reading MY words right now, not those of WSJ.com or Slate which are for profit] I bet there are lots of other competitors for MSFT. GG doesn't think MSFT has a monopoly [other than in the abstract sense that all transactions are monopolies]. A shame GG doesn't come and tell us himself what he thinks instead of needing a priest [me] to do it for him. It's fun being a priest. No wonder religions spring up by the thousand - the priests just make up anything they like and call it The Word! = great fun. Mqurice

To: TigerPaw who wrote (4396)	5/20/2000 1:00:00 AM
From: greedsgd_2000	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

"it shows that a for-profit software competitor to Microsoft cannot survive." Last I heard Apple and Oracle and hundreds of other "software" companies do in fact exist. I think you mean "operating system" Sorry, but the desktop is about to displaced to a large degree, by the internet itself. I will skip the Larry Ellison quote - since you obviously ignored it the first time. Point is simple, times have changed, the Justice case is already MOOT. The government is best to stay away from proclaiming who is "innovating" and who is not.