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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (4922)	2/1/1998 11:07:00 PM
From: mozek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Paul, It's too bad there are more than a few people who think that Microsoft doesn't innovate. They're dead wrong, but I guess it keeps the stock from going parabolic. So we don't have to go through the tape measurement exercise, I've also been developing software for more than the 3 times the 5 years I've been at MSFT. My first commercial development was on Compupro S-100 systems. I recently bought what many would consider a large number of MSFT shares (over and above options or stock purchase program) to hold for the long haul. If you only knew the current level of innovation inside the company, you may consider it as well. Good luck, Mike

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (4922)	2/1/1998 11:25:00 PM
From: K. M. Strickler	Respond to of 74651

Please let it not be your last post on the subject! You have made very good points, and Of course, I am in agreement. The problem that I have is how can we as end users stop this from happening? I would have liked it if MSFT had learned from IBM's misstep, but alas that wasn't to be! Of course I would look at them as a vehicle for progress, as progress is what we need! By the same token, the progress is made at the expense of others, by way of the fact that the employees, except for whatever compensation they receive at the time, have no intellectual rights to the work that they do! As with other companies, the worker has the right to 'sign over' the intellectual property, or 'go elsewhere'. Since all companies are the same (as far as I know ), there is really no 'elsewhere' to go to! This attitude of 'my way' or 'the hi-way' brought on by either side only stops progress! Those of us who are tired of contributing for free our intellectual expertise have left the field of programming, not because our ideas are gone, but because ( in my case anyway ) I no longer have the need to prove anything to anybody. I wonder if that is why there are so many burned out ex-MSFT'er around? Maybe they too get tired, and have to be replaced by the next batch of college graduates which last until 'they figure it out'! As for great products being available, of course I agree again! The problem, as I see it, is that the great products either run out of cash required to exist until they are widly distributed, or Boppin' Bill (or anybody else) makes the an offer they can't refuse. If somehow these people could resist the temptation, then all of a sudden, the court cases arise, and snuff city for the little guy! I'm against monopolies and dictatorships, and I understand that one of the possibilities is that the OS and APP groups will be separated at arms length. I'm personally not sure that that is enough, but it is probably all that we will be able to get. You are correct that there was that little window of opportunity from about 1978-1983 when real progress was made by real people and I felt that there was at last going to be an opportunity to make a 'real' difference! Unfortunately, that 'door' shut so fast and so hard that I wondered if it ever existed! As for the settling of the country, again you are correct! As for apologies, for what, being right? being able to think? taking my time? You need not apologize. Just 'post'! How about the Tucker car and all of its advances? Ken