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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (4102)	11/20/1997 4:25:00 PM
From: Rich Goldsmith	Respond to of 74651

Cheryl, No, because each airline has equal and fair access to the terminals. So, what airports have you been flying into lately? Airlines buy gates (not the bill kind), the more gates an airline has the more "access" it has to that airport. It's hard, but not impossible, to get to some cities without flying on a specific airline, e.g. TWA from anywhere to St Louis. Regards, Rich

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (4102)	11/21/1997 4:45:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

[cw: No, because each airline has equal and fair access to the terminals.] That's because airports are a limited resource owned and regulated by the government, which makes sense only because public safety concerns prohibit the building of private commercial airports in high traffic areas. MSFT controls no such limited resource that IBM/SUNW/AAPL/NSCP/ORCL/NOVL could not clone with talented people and real commitment. If these companies want to enjoy the benefits of controlling a popular OS they need to make the tremendous investment in personnel, development, marketing, and distribution that MSFT has.