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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (20000)	2/6/1998 12:49:00 PM
From: Serendipity	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Paul: Excellent. Joe: Can you forward Paul's expose to Lisa? Your positive mention of her is making me wonder that she may just not know the facts... No one can know it all. Seren.

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (20000)	2/6/1998 11:08:00 PM
From: Jack Whitley	Respond to of 42771

<<The important thing which Microsoft never mentions, is that when a company called Netscape appeared in the computer software industry with two products that made the Internet commercially viable --- a browser that allowed visual HTML to be accessible on any desktop, and a web server that allowed Internet commerce to advance, the company which controls 86% of the the desktop operating systems responded with a no cost browser and a no cost web server.>> Standard Oil Trust (early 20th century) - "You buy our oil, or you don't get oil. We know whats best for our industry" AT&T - "You use our communications, or you don't communicate. We know whats best for our industry" MSFT - "You use our desktop operating system, or you don't process information or use the internet. We know whats best for our industry" The first two companies were considered "shrewd competitors" and great capitalists, and considered themselves bigger than the US, but no one can argue that the break-up of these monopolies brought exponential benefits from both industries to our country. I mentioned in an earlier post that you cannot even get a PC shipped to you with no operating system, you MUST take it loaded with Win 95 or NT, or you don't get a PC. Why would a PC company forgo a $2000 sale because you won't take a $45 copy of an operating system they don't even make ? Is it because they are afraid of the company that makes the $45 operating system ? I would like to e-mail the DOJ and pass this along. Does anyone have an e-mail address ? I did a search and got the DOJ website and a generic e-mail box for DOJ, but it probably has 10,000 posts in it. Anyone know of direct e-mail to Reno or better yet the attorney trying the MSFT case, he is supposed to be pretty shrewd. jww Guess I better look under the car before starting it tomorrow, I'm sure "they" are watching (sigh).