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To: Elmo Gregory who wrote (19684)	1/17/1998 3:40:00 PM
From: Elmo Gregory	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

An Open Letter to Bill Gates ----------snip------------ I've watched Microsoft take on one competitor after another and, by focusing on the essential technologies that affect customers, defeat nearly every single one--Digital Research, Lotus, IBM, Novell, and a host of others. ----------snip------------ pathfinder.com

To: Elmo Gregory who wrote (19684)	1/17/1998 5:39:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

A couple of years ago a company tried to defend it's product from recall citing independent customer surveys showing above average satisfaction. It was a product called SoftRAM and it purported to double your memory. In fact, it was nothing but an empty shell and several respected technical journals exposed this. The trade press, prior to the revelation that it was an imaginary product, was also full of praise. So much for surveys. The Feds are right about this and they have support from the likes of conservatives like Bob Dole. Fortunately, we did not end up with DC power from that crackpot Thomas Edison because the market quickly realized that he was a crackpot whose only claim to fame was a stupid wick that would light up and his brain-dead approach to discovering that is enough to make you laugh. He adapted the hard work and hard science of others and made a fortune at it. You can go down the list (microphone, phonograph...) and what you see is the implementation of technology which he did not even understand. Bill Gates is like Thomas Edison: a reasonably intelligent crackpot who was first on the seen. Unlike Thomas Edison, WE ALL HAVE DC POWER! Their technology stinks and they are using there monopoly position to stifle innovation.

To: Elmo Gregory who wrote (19684)	1/18/1998 7:18:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 42771

Hello Elmo, I really appreciate the link ... this is a very powerful set of articles. > America Loves Microsoft > > Competitors cry foul. The Justice Department wants its pound of > flesh. > But Fortune's national polls show America Loves Microsoft > pathfinder.com Obviously as you read this, the article is more balanced than the headline ... but WOW ... the most interesting part to me is the following "Open Letter to Bill Gates" ... pathfinder.com I'm afraid that for those of you that don't know about Stewart Alsop this is a major slap at Bill from a friend. As I stated on Friday in my post to Joe, I truely believe that what I see on this board lately is a lot of views of trees ... this link is an impressive sign that if you look at the forest things are changing. I agree completely with Stewart (no matter as a Novell employee or not) that this is starting to cross some interesting lines. We are witnessing a historic event here and now. Scott C. Lemon