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To: Dave who wrote (617)	10/21/2002 9:12:42 AM
From: 10K a day	Respond to of 19790

in all honesty, dave, you sound a little cynical... Have you ever heard the song....'Mr. Peabody's Coal Co.?'

To: Dave who wrote (617)	10/21/2002 11:04:26 AM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 19790

"...it IS an attack on open standards and free dissemination of information" - Dave Which open standard is this HighMAT data CD format an attack on? "Okay, you tell me, what exactly is HighMAT?" - Dave You are asking as if you don't know what it is. Do you always attack new things that you don't understand? "What other company could come up with that sheer volume of verbiage without actually offering any information?" Um, Matsushita Electric/Panasonic?

To: Dave who wrote (617)	10/21/2002 12:50:01 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19790

it IS NOT an attempt to benefit consumers in any way, The purpose of corporations is to make a profit. It just happens to be the case that benefiting consumers and making a profit go together. No corporation will make a profit seeking to benefit consumers. That can't be an objective. You give the consumer what you want, not what they want, because they don't know what they want. MSFT precipitated a disaster on itself by trying to give everyone what they wanted with the result of bloated problematic software. and it IS an attack on open standards and free dissemination of information I sure hope so. Open standards means no one can make a profit and so no standard becomes standardized because corporations don't end up giving consumers what corporations want. The term "open standard" is oxymoron. Standards arise from what is closed and what persists until it becomes common and unprofitable. When it gets unprofitable you need a standard to induce some corporation to continue to maintain the standard. The standard helps to retain the marginal customer who is threatening to jump by giving the share leader false hope that there still is rising marginal returns to marginal retained share.