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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (16288)	1/18/1998 6:21:00 PM
From: damniseedemons	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Dan, I wasn't arguing for Microsoft's tactics, and mentioned nothing of the sort! Ok? If you check back, I was responding to Bill who seemed to be saying that it's unfair for a company to use it's financial strength to destroy the weaker competition. So I just came in with the WMT example. >They hadda go hire Eric Schmidt, go down the bogus, fraudlent Java path instead. Doesn't Microsoft make Visual C++? Or is that VisualDirectInterDevActiveStudio++ these days? Huh?

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (16288)	1/18/1998 7:52:00 PM
From: Rubber Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

<Are there any other instances of a big corporation devoting the biggest part of its development effort for 2-3 years running to make something to give away and destroy a competitor? > Remember Stacker? How about Central Point Anti-Virus? Then there's Norton Utilities (before DOS/Windows started "integrating" every single function that software had). There's also a 3D development company that got screwed by Microsoft because microsoft went out and bought (then integrated) the same 3d features in Windows. In fact, one the of next companies I can see being crushed by Microsoft will be the developers of pkzip (pkware?). On a related topic- electric cars. Imagine you developed one and decide to market it, then the largest automakers comes out with these vehicles and sells them below cost (it's well known they'll be losing money on every single one for the forseeable future) would that be fair? ;)