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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (14363)	11/24/1997 8:53:00 AM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

<Once again, Unix, Mac, and Amiga came out with GUIs that were brought to the masses. And they were technically superior to MSFT products. What's more, it took MSFT a long time to get it right, with Windows 3.1. But they had this luxury because of their monopoly position. So they were not the first to bring these type of products to the masses but simply the most successful in marketshare terms.> You are contradicting yourself here. You cannot bring a product to the masses if you do not create a liquid machine for majority marketshare. Apple and Amiga DID NOT bring thier technology to the masses because they opted to go the high profit margin route of a closed platform in lieu of maximum market share (in other words they did not license for fear of lower margins). MSFT's platform was economically open, for thier techonlogy was available the majority of available hardware. It was within Apple's capability to do so. At the height of thier success, they should have leveraged thier momentum by licensing the Macintosh platform, thereby creating a clone market. This would have prevented the rise of the Winodws platform by filling in the vacuum that was caused by the lack of this GUI technology. The lack of licensing economically closed systems did in Amiga's multimedia systems, Apples hardware/software combo, and IBM Microchannel architecture. Notice what happened when IBM failed to fill in this vacuum by licensing thier technology, a clone market was created right around them. Why do you think MSFT licensed VBA to over 70 other companies? Quick answer, to increase the pervasiveness of Windows RAD technology with the advent of ultra wide area networking (the Web).