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To: qdog who wrote (6830)	1/5/1998 10:44:00 PM
From: synchro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Real literary classy post, qdog. Wonder if you talk to your neighbors in person the same way. One unfortunate side of Internet is that it makes dialogue a lot cruder and ruder. It's easy to hide behind the monitor in one's own home and let your keyboard do the shooting and hurling. I wonder if people would be more courteous and considerate when bandwidth expands to the point that multi-point televideo conferencing becomes cheap and possible.

To: qdog who wrote (6830)	1/6/1998 1:10:00 AM
From: Bruce R. Schlake	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Nice talk, tough guy or gal behind the silly name. You expect anyone to respect you, your knowledge or your opinion when you break down like this? Obviously you are too blindsided to see the point. However... I'll try anyway. Microsoft is not the issue here. Bill Gates is not the important factor here, you must get beyond this jealous rage, he is irrelevant. The scary part is not Gates, the scary part is government stifling creativity. It is government taking control of an industry that can change overnight and is still in its infancy. It is government dictating what a company or person can or cannot create (last I heard, nobody was being killed or mutilated by msft code). It is government telling you and I what we can or cannot have. Your Intel example does make a good point, for me: it did not take government regulators to create low priced pc's. And sorry to let you in on the news, but wasn't AT&T a true monopoly, legally regulated to use the billions and billions of dollar infrastructure that was probably put in place by a lot of taxpayer money. An infrastructure that made it pretty much impossible to communicate efficiently via anything else. Why can't you go buy a Mac or O/S2 machine, or Sun workstation or NC or use Novell, or get an AS400 or maybe a cable modem with a settop box or a Qualcomm computer phone with who knows what in the future or maybe even a Wind River RTOS in your home of the 21st century? This isn't the AT&T environment of years ago. It's more like IBM of the 60's and 70's, just software instead of hardware. Gee, I don't remember IBM being demonopolized, they eventually just did it to themselves. Is Msft really that scary? As I see it you have a few serious prejudices you may not realize: 1) You have no faith in people making their own decisions. 2) You have no faith in the creativity of future minds and therefore technology. 3) You have no faith in the free market system. In other words, you wish to relegate your decision making power to a higher authority when we wish to keep our freedom to ourselves. I am not having 'afraid of Bill Gates dreams' yet and I certainly am not frothing the kind of talk you place here in public. I am also very glad I did not waste my time reading all of your random bursts of garbage that have deteriorated the quality of this thread. But then again, my good name is at stake here, whereas you are just a dog. Good luck, Bruce