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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (16375)	1/20/1998 12:57:00 AM
From: Keith Hankin	Respond to of 24154

By the way Yale University in an article written to extol their coup of our library outbidding the rest of the world's archives for the KGB papers announced the feat with the following banner line: The good news is we got the KGB papers the bad news Mccarthy was very nearly right. Although I am no fan of old Joe he is much maligned in today's liberal press - which makes me inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt. You've got to be kidding. McCarthy was so extreme in prosecutions. My uncle was blacklisted because he went to a communist meeting once. Well, he is a college professor. Many professors (and students) go to meetings of groups that they don't necessarily agree with to learn things. ATT ruled the world by virtue of having the only wires hooked to our homes. IBM also had other physical barriers to 3rd party elements being added to their equipment. The size of each company played no part in the outcome of the anti-trust actions brought. It was dominance wrought by physical barriers that was at issue. In the case of MSFT anyone can write a 3rd party program to work with Windows. Anyone can write another OS i.e. Linux. In the case of IE4.0, any other browser vendor can add their browser to the desktop but MSFT is within its rights to sell the OS with the browser imbedded. This is nothing new and is perfectly fair as long as others are not estopped from supplying their browser as an add-in. The same argument that you make about MSFT could be applied to your ATT example. Another company can install another set of wires to our homes and compete with ATT, and thus according to your own argument, they are not a true monopoly! The flaw in your argument is that barriers do not have to be physical entities. For example, although one could add another set of wires to every household, it would be expensive and time-consuming and thus it represents a barrier to entry of competition. The same can be said of MSFT's monopoly in the OS market.

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (16375)	1/23/1998 2:25:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

John, >> I hear the whirlwind -- do you own a Mac? Yes, I have one of the new G3 Mini-Towers and will not go back to the IBM PC clonemare! So far Virtual PC runs all the Windows95 apps that I have loaded, including the 3D Mapping software that killed my old machine. I never knew what I was missing and would recommend it to anyone; it is everything that a PC should be. After seeing Virtual PC running Windows95 so well it is even more obvious that the Java wave is only going to gain momentum. Taking off my jackass overcoat long enough to be truly objective, the only software that will not be written in something like Java, five years from now, will be really specialized software like that which runs on an SGI/Cray. With the processor speeds still increasing and 3D rendering cards becoming affordable, the question of performance becomes less important. Tomorrow's general application programmer should not write programs for Windows or the Mac, they should write it for a cross-platform language. "Own a Mac, invest in PC's". Check out the G3 systems sometime they are excellent machines. Cheers, Norm