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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (14645)	12/5/1997 12:23:00 AM
From: miraje	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

Chaz, I'll take your word for it that there is a border between OS and application. However, I would postulate that a big reason that the software business is a shining star of the US economy is precisely because the government is too slow and stupid to have figured out how to regulate and interfere with it up to this point. Government regulation, along with stupid trade union vs management bickering, certainly was a major factor in the steel and auto industry migrating overseas. Both of these factors are absent in high tech, at least to this point, and I, for one, would like to see it stay that way. I would be very curious to know if there are any truly independent studies that back your contention that Microsofts success is destroying more jobs than they create. I strongly suspect that the opposite is in fact the reality. The industry is much too diverse and rapidly growing for even Microsoft to swallow it all. Jeez, if in addition they manage to monopolize the stock market, online commerce, and television delivery without serious indigestion, I'll take my hat off to Bill. If MSFT gets too fat, bloated, diversified, and unmanagable, then the consumers and the marketplace will punish them as they deserve. The pirhanas will eat the shark. If I see that coming I'll bail as an investor. I just hope that enough people in the industry, including MSFT's competitors, can see that the long claws extending from Washington, DC will ultimately ruin the growth and opportunity for everyone. Just my opinion, but I think that's where the true danger lies. Regards, JB