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To: Joe NYC who wrote (44260)	6/14/2001 12:38:22 AM
From: bacchus_ii	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

BTW Nobody hear about 6.2 earthquake in TW. <I think when a private property is needed to be acquired by a government entity, it should be at prices agreeable to the seller (with possibility of impartial arbitrator).> Not if the price is valued at full blast exploitation of a monopoly situation. As Andreas wrote:"The corporations made the Microsoft monopoly by standardising on it, (thus suffocating all the other vendors)." That the real problem. We have establish that standard, us, the user. The need for a Standard was there. We use DOS, Windows 3 ... because the price was fair and we should have expected it stay fair. But as soon as the Standard was established, Bill Gate stop being Robin Hood and became worst than IBM at it worst. We been betrayed. The Standard (possibility to make fully compatible clone) should not belong to MS. That my point. After 10 to 15 years using Windows, Office, ... nobody can go LINUX or other set-up because they could lost everything accumulated since. Gottfried PS: Gee.. this is pore English writing... I won't publish other post tonight :-)