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To: Amy J who wrote (130569)	3/21/2001 10:36:41 AM
From: GVTucker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Amy, RE: Gates and crew seemed to have come up with a great way to enhance innovation by creating open standards, yet balancing this out with the need for compatibility by creating a cohesive core to promote compatibility. This is definitely cool and I believe it will be big for Microsoft and the chip players. One major part of the .NET plan is monthly fee that Microsoft is counting on charging users. I have thought that this presents a significant hurdle to widespread adoption. What do you think about this facet?

To: Amy J who wrote (130569)	3/23/2001 11:38:51 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 186894

Amy J, Re: Microsoft and innovation For some reason, I am allergic to seeing these 2 words together. But to be objective, what Microsoft is doing is an aspect of innovation, that is perfecting ideas others came up with. Perhaps this is a more important aspect of innovation than invention itself, because it takes one set of skills to invent something, and another to bring the idea to market in a form that appeals to customers. I think Microsoft is probably the closest to 70s and early 80s Japanese style, where they stole or copied major inventions, and manufactured the devices based on those inventions better than the inventor himself. I am a little behind the curve on .NET, from the little that I do know about it, I don't see the idea as any more open than Windows itself. Microsoft sells Windows, other vendors sell apps that run on top of Windows. Windows is open to anyone to write apps for, but it is not open to anyone to change it. I view .NET in a similar light. (BTW, I am not arguing open - good, closed bad). Joe