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To: Jerry Heidtke who wrote (142)	10/28/1997 8:15:00 PM
From: Kal	Respond to of 1600

May you be blessed. well said. That's the bottom line argument to many anti microsofters of which I am one. This is exactly what I try to bring people's attention to. Dilbert bosses do not realize the cost and fall for ...well you explained it pretty well here. regards MH #1

To: Jerry Heidtke who wrote (142)	10/29/1997 8:11:00 AM
From: Steve Lee	Respond to of 1600

>And my MS Certification ID is 3565. I guess that's about 259254 before your's, huh? (Unless MS skipped a few, or use a Pentium to assign numbers...).< I posted my certification number because somebody who has never met me disputed my line of work. I posted my company details and MS ID No so that what I said I did could be verified. I'm not sure what point you were making by saying that you have an earlier ID number than mine. Just in case you were trying to give the impression of being some kind of expert on MS software, let me quote from one of your earlier posts: "I don't work for Novell, although I make my living servicing their products" Now I understand your bitterness towards Microsoft, they are killing off your market. Why don't you ask Novell to run crying to the DOJ like Netscape?

To: Jerry Heidtke who wrote (142)	10/29/1997 9:28:00 AM
From: Typhoon	Respond to of 1600

Regarding this certification ID number, I'm not familiar with this. Do they stamp it on your forehead or right hand? I'm going to start getting very nervous when I see the release of MS Beast 6.65. Okay, I was only joking, but this part may bother a few people and I'll take some flak, but it's worth stepping back and thinking about: MS is getting into the embedded market, there is experimentation going on with "embedding" microchips into people (well pets, so far) for the purposes of tracking them or identification, and we also know Gates has been trying to get into the banking world. Anyone read Revelation? I'm not certainly not implying anything, just commenting that the technology we have today is looking more and more like what I've read about end-time prophecy. And, for those like myself, who believe what the Bible says will happen, it's no stretch to assume that computers technology will be key in all of it. The question is who, and when, and exactly how. Of course, if Gates wants control of the bulk of the embedded world, he's going to have to realize that his wonderful Windows is completely useless for the very vast majority of embedded applications. He's going to have to develop a tiny little OS and then work very hard to convince Motorola, Intel (well maybe not Intel), Hitachi, Microchip, NEC, Zilog, and others that their microcontrollers need an OS, and that they should pay Microsoft a licensing fee for each processor they sell. Or, he could just buy Motorola and make it easier on himself. As stupid as all this sounds, don't be surprized when it happens. Back in the early days, if you had told me I'd be paying over $100 for an operating system, I'd have gone ballistic, yet it's the norm today.