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To: Grainne who wrote (14656)	1/2/1998 10:36:00 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Happy New Year, Christine! I hope you, your Irish husband and daughter enjoy 1998!

To: Grainne who wrote (14656)	1/5/1998 6:35:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 108807

Christine: You suffer from John Kenneth Galbraith's vision of "capitalism. The only monopolies that can exist are government supported monopolies. BTW, the federal government IS a monopoly. I say open it up for competition. And while we're at it, who needs politicians to spend our money for us, squander our futures, sit around and pass laws taking away our freedoms a little bit at a time, and delude themselves into thinking that their tinkering with economic forces they couldn't begin to comprehend is better than unfettered capitalism? Down with Alexander Hamilton! Father Terrence

To: Grainne who wrote (14656)	1/6/1998 4:16:00 AM
From: Skipper	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Christine, From the link you posted: "'Most of us who know the Internet hate Microsoft,' explained a systems administrator for an Internet startup in San Francisco's South Park District. 'People use Microsoft products not because they are best, but because they are what is compatible with most other software they need.'" "That is not the way that the free market is supposed to work. Consumers are supposed to choose products because they are the best, not because they are the only game in town." The Microsoft OS products are the best, because they do provide the common platform needed by the PC industry. When I said that you reap the benefits of his achievement, this is what I meant. Microsoft has played a key role in bringing the PC to the masses. It wasn't Unix, nor the Mac, but Windows. Now why would you take this reporter seriously? I have 20 years in this industry. Apple was there before Microsoft, and they blew it. And guess what? It was IBM, the monopoly of the moment, that gave little Microsoft its chance, not the government. The only real help that the government has provided in this information revolution has been to dismantle the biggest monopoly of all time, their very own creation, AT&T. Skipper