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To: cfimx who wrote (51691)	9/18/2002 11:28:18 AM
From: I Am John Galt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Why do you think Scott keeps sticking it to MSFT? Out of curiosity?

To: cfimx who wrote (51691)	9/18/2002 12:46:21 PM
From: patrick tang	Respond to of 64865

generally I don't agree much with you you say, but I think in this case you are right. I don't think McNealy/sunw will get anywhere if the strategy reamins the CEO's pet hobby of "selling servers to hurt MSoft". Too bad. As far as Office is yesterday's battle, I think that anytime if a document is to be read by more than one person, 'documents' are going to be out. This whole SI forum is just a prime example - everything goes over the net. I think an integrated web authoring tool is tomorrow's battle. Office was yesterday's battle. Let the open source guys do what they want to do with it, pay lip service if needed, but why sink any money into it.

To: cfimx who wrote (51691)	9/18/2002 1:37:27 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

there you go again. once again proving that its more important for suncom to kick sand in the evil ones face than it is to create value for shareholders Oh yeah? Well here I go again: in this case I don't see the distinction. The outrageously usurious pricing for Office is one of Microsoft's most despicable bullying tactics--as is shown by the endless press items that are appearing about it--and a major point of vulnerability. There have been so many bad things about Office (in both the product quality sense and the ethical sense) throughout its history that there's a real chance a low-cost near-equivalent product from Sun and/or the Open Source community could loosen the MSFT stranglehold on that huge market. It's (potentially) good for shareholders and McNealy is doing the right thing on their behalf to pursue it. He's not asking for legislation, he's trying to help market forces do what they're bound to do, just a little quicker. --QS