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To: Ramsey Su who wrote (3107)	7/14/2001 12:12:06 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12231

Re : Bill Gates ALWAYS using the word "innovate" every time he is "on camera." It is pathetic. Only someone who clearly has NOT been an innovator (and whose company has not been an innovator) would feel the need to endlessly repeat this (out loud). Can you imagine how ridiculous Qualcomm shareholders would have felt if Andrew Viterbi and Irwin Jacobs felt the need to always say "innovate" ? Jon.

To: Ramsey Su who wrote (3107)	7/14/2001 7:19:30 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12231

Ramsey, I believe I have been the subject of a huge conspiracy involving the National Security Agency, Judge Jackson, Joel Klein, Janet Reno, qveauriche, Clark Hare, Jon Koplik, the FBI, the SEC, the Californian Commercial Law enforcement guy who didn't like the GGMDM and you. There are certainly other co-conspirators who I have offended over the years [I have worked hard]. There's Anthony@, Puck and Dweeb for example who will all dance around the pyre. I now realize that the USA is simply the greatest place on the planet, if not the universe and Americans are direct descendants of God [and whatever other Gods they worship, such as Allah, Krishna, Buddah, Green$pan, Bill Clinton - I dare say there are a few of those who can make a valid paternal claim for BillC.]. Microsoft and $ill Gates are the harbingers of evil. All that other stuff that people rave about must also be true. I have now got my super-powerful computer back on line having suffered a total partition-collapsing blue screen of death which required reformatting of ground zero and rebuilding from the ground up. I have no favourites, I have no bookmarks, I have no software, I have no email, I was wiped from the face of the earth [cyberspace anyway]. I haven't had such a failure for years. Yes, I admit, I didn't have that backup stuff, despite having an Iomaniac Zip Drive built in for such a purpose. I am going to arrange a nuking of Redmond, the FBI, NSA and all the others who conspired in the attack on me. I hear there is a big pile of plutonium in Kazakhstan waiting for customers. I am going to buy a QUALCOMM operating system, QUALCOMM Anita[TM], QUALCOMM CDMA network and it will work as expected. I am not a happy sheople. Mqurice

To: Ramsey Su who wrote (3107)	7/14/2001 11:58:06 PM
From: Drew Williams	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12231

re: the browser wars One thing I would like to know is what Netscape wanted to do that they were never able to do? Other than stay in business, that is. What browser innovations did they want to make happen that never happened because of what Microsoft did? I'm not being sarcastic here. (OK, maybe a little, but that is necessary because this is Mqurice's thread.) It is my humble opinion that even without Microsoft's unethical behavior, Netscape's business model would still have been unsustainable and they would still have suffered the same fate, although it probably would have taken longer. There were gazillions of browsers around in those days (I have disks for several) all of which were functional equivalents, and all were based on the same licensed code as was Netscape. Clearly, there was going to be consolidation in the industry. It is also clear to me that Microsoft will survive (if not necessarily prosper) in any market segment they choose to compete. That is part of being a 500 pound gorilla (who can sit anywhere he wants.) Frankly, without Netscape coming up with something really radically different, Microsoft still would have won the browser wars even without doing all the nasty stuff they did (and apparently continue to do.) We won't go on to talk about Microsoft Word (which I hate) and WordPerfect (which I love). I'm not condoning what Microsoft did, of course. But if you really want to know about playing hardball in business, read Ron Chernow's "Titan : The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr." amazon.com Or better yet, Ida Tarbell's "The History of the Standard Oil Company" amazon.com