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To: pass pass who wrote (13275)	1/14/1998 10:54:00 PM
From: Mang Cheng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

Pass, I think the SINGLE determining smart move by Gate was to take away all copy-protection from all its softwares in the late 80's. At that time all office softwares like Wordperfect, IBM Display Writer, Lotus-1-2-3 etc. etc. were copy-protected and have higher market shares than Microsoft. People still could find ways to break all the copy-protections but it created real pain for legal owners. Once copy-protection came off from Microsoft, its office software sales simply exploded all over the world. Lotus and Wordperfect - eventhough had better technologies at that time, just dropped dead. Mang