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To: miraje who wrote (2322)	2/14/2004 2:03:30 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Thanks for the info, James. Can you tell me how many total jobs have been outsourced by MSFT in past few yrs? I understand what you're saying about the lawsuits against the company; however, didn't Europe do the same thing? Believe me, if China/India find a way to make a profit, they'll file lawsuits against msft as well. IMO, if MSFT had not been so obstinate when the lawsuits began, it never would have snowballed the way it did. I personally have had annoyances with the way they bundle their products. I was a Netscape user until fairly recently & at one point msft grabbed my lengthy bookmark list & it was impossible to retrieve them. I recently started to use Internet Explorer, & quite frankly, I don't like it nearly as much as Netscape. So, if Bill Gates & Co had merely adjusted a few minor details early in the lawsuit game, he would have saved the co future headaches. His arrogance caused the incoming from every direction.

To: miraje who wrote (2322)	2/14/2004 2:40:28 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

James, the USA pays inflated prices for software from all top license revenue software firms, and reinvests that money in India. License based software as an industry is a drain on the USA economy at this point in my view. It was a microsoft executive who coined the phrase "pick something to move offshore, today" (as a take off on their "where do you want to go today" theme). "Tough Love" and all that, to the US software industry. And btw even though the US based software industry is more profitable than ever, and hiring a miniscule amount of US personnel- they are still charging extreme prices for their products. Here's the clincher. The free market actually is responding to overpriced license based software with Linux, something that assigns NO value to the millions of lines of code that these offshore development farms can produce (that the USA cannot). Linux brings us back to the service revenue model for software which was IBMs model in the 80s. Microsoft and Oracle are clearly scared of Linux (for good reason). So what does MSFT do to counter the threat of a no revenue software model? They invest 50mm in SCO and attempt to use Boies to sue the Linux community, under the premise that free software is unconstitutional! Sounds eerily familiar to the drug company claims that MaineRX was unconstitutional, what a bunch of BS. I think it would be a good thing if msft,orcl and the lot moved their entire operation offshore, including the corp HQ. Because here is what would happen, the US software industry would simply adopt Linux across the board and msft/orcl would just fade away. As a nation we would be better off. The overinflated prices US corps pay for software licenses would go to local implementation personnel.