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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (172125)	10/7/2005 5:59:29 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Mary, that shows that Sun's theory about evil $ill is wrong: <But do you get my drift. Microsoft never came out first with any of the software that I ever use. It was not that I had anything against Microsoft, but every time I tried using their software, the software didn't work and there was soemthing else that worked better. > You always seemed to have alternatives which suited you better. So $ill did NOT in fact have a monopoly. Even in a very narrow sense. I was early onto cyberspace too, back in the days when Compuserve provided me a very high-priced service for a few minutes a month [I couldn't afford to spend much time on it and the information available was low and nobody I knew had email]. It was funny when $ill "discovered" the internet and underwent a conversion. I guess he had been too busy with the intricacies of his software to notice a big looming monster. Similarly, nearly everyone is too busy to notice the big looming monster It. If they do, they deny that anything other than humans can have intelligence. Giggle. Human intelligence!! What a laugh. Better than chimps. Most of the time. Barely. <But, I don't really know how important Bill Gates and Microsoft are to technology and the computer industry.> The importance of a voluntarily bought product is pretty much represented by the amount of dollars. MSFT's huge pile of them is indicative of how much they have done for people. <I don't think we would have missed a beat if Bill Gates and Microsoft never existed. > There definitely would have been beats missed, but probably only by a year or three or 5. I didn't buy the original computers because they were too expensive. It was only when the cheaper clones came out powered with MSFT that I could justify spending the money. The "I Hate $ill" crowd is pathetic. They wear it like a badge of belonging, to show they are regular geeks too, like the other anti-$ill people. To me it just shows their own inadequacies and jealousies. Mqurice

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (172125)	10/7/2005 9:05:45 PM
From: Don Hurst	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

>>"But, I don't really know how important Bill Gates and Microsoft are to technology and the computer industry. I don't think we would have missed a beat if Bill Gates and Microsoft never existed. I can only speculate that perhaps we could have been better off without either Bill Gates and Microsoft being in existense."<< You are wrong Mary. Gates, Allen and Ballmer were smart enough to take advantage of the IBM name and IBM marketing better then IBM could and by adding Windows and later Windows/95 made the IBM PC the necessary and easily cloned standard and pushed the PC computing world probably 10 years ahead of where it would be today without them. Now the same thing is happening to them that happened to IBM. Soon perhaps people will be saying "I don't think we would have missed a beat if Google never existed."