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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom C who wrote (46709)	6/14/2000 9:13:00 PM
From: SC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Tom, CW writes very entertaining posts. I suspect that Silicon Investor owns the content of our posts. If I am correct, I would encourage them to publish a book with chapters highlighting the more outlandish and entertaining contributors. In the world according to CW, the operating system should be bundled, or tied to the hardware (isn't tying or bundling things together what the DOJ alleged to launch the antitrust suit against microsoft?). In the case of SUNW, Cheryl maintains that this is not tying or bundling but an integrated proprietary solution (isn't that sort of the same thing microsoft said about internet explorer as part of windows?) Of course, people are allowed to write operating systems for non-proprietary hardware; but in Cheryl's world they are criminals if they require people to pay money for a license. I wonder how many people would want to enter the operating system competition if this were the case? Steve

To: Tom C who wrote (46709)	6/14/2000 9:55:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Good for you Tom. I'm glad you were able to run SCO Unix on your PC. However, the normal everyday consumer had to buy MS-DOS (PC-DOS) because that is what came with the PC. M$FT was IBM's preferred vendor, remember??? IBM legitimized the PC for the office market, and they didn't select Xenix, they didn't select, SCO-Unix, and they didn't select CP/M. MS-DOS was just a piece of garbage written by a couple of hackers from Seattle. It took the IBM imprimatur to make it into a big seller. You sound like a bright guy. Maybe you could have written your own O/S and run it. I had users in the early days who wanted to run their own PC-desktops without ANY Operating System. So what does that have to do with the price of tea in China??? BTW: IBM screwed up royally. They should have bought the rights to MS-DOS and donated it to ISO.