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To: qdog who wrote (6515)	12/15/1997 4:17:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Gee Chris, I really think you aren't a closet member of the Bill G fan club. As John Hayman said to me, go on tell us what you really feel about Bill G. I bet MSFT doesn't think it has a monopoly or is cornering the market. Even in browsers. Even in operating systems. If Bill G makes it to a trillion dollars, then will he be 1% of the USA? I doubt it. Hardly a pimple on a pumpkin. So Bill G. tried to hijack Java. Got turned down for IP reasons. And rightly so. Just as he defends his IP, so Sun defends its IP. Funny though, as you say, that he is happy to moan about other monopolies [assuming what you say about him moaning about telcoms is true] and tried to pinch Java. He even went so far as to say it should be an open = "free" standard. Quite incredible! I've never said he is a saint. That's what people say about my beloved cdmaOne! "It should be an open standard". "Qualcomm should give it away". "It's too big for one company". "The royalties are killing Korea". "The royalties will stop cdmaOne succeeding against GSM". All that sort of nonsense. I'd be surprised if his alleged monopoly lasts a decade against the myriad options people are working on. Maybe he'll get some sort of monopoly on money changing on the Web. Now that would be a monopoly worth pursuing. Okay, have to go do something. Like taxes and tidy my paper heap! Feed the ducks. Turtle, guinea pig and have a nice cup of Japaneese green tee. Mqurice

To: qdog who wrote (6515)	12/15/1997 4:17:00 PM
From: kech	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Man (B.G) bites dog! (Now that is something worth talking about). Qdog is right - G* is not a monopoly! But Qdog - notice that I said power "distribution" is a monopoly - not necessarily power generation which as you point out is being deregulated and demonopolized. I.e. it isn't worth building multiple grids and wires to the home but it is worth competing over who supplies the power to the grid and at what price. Champion the right of the entrant to have a shot at the monopolist - where possible and make it an unregulated market. However, where it is not possible to have competition for those monopoloy profits sometimes the hated regulators have to step in. Give Java a shot, let Netscape not get bundled out of the market. If you do -- even Microsoft will have to stop producing kluge-ware.