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To: Kal who wrote (715)	3/3/1998 11:45:00 PM
From: Schiz	Respond to of 1600

Who needs competition? microsoft should buy Dell. They could stop licensing windows to other oems and take it off the retail shelf. They could essentially bundle the computer with the operating system. Actually they could charge 3 or 4 grand for windows and give away the computer for free. If it wasn't for the doj, we could all have free computers.

To: Kal who wrote (715)	3/19/1998 12:06:00 PM
From: K. M. Strickler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

Kal, You are definitely correct, IMO! MSFT needs to have (as all companies need to have) competition in order to encourage the 'best' product! I wouldn't want to see anybody disappear, but by the same token, I don't want the government to 'squash' anybody! Maybe MSFT could be 'limited' to market penetration at some percentage, and then MSFT would have to actually support the other manufacturer efforts, like Unix or Linex, DR-(w98)! Not every who has an idea wants to work for MSFT, or maybe they have already 'burned' out! The industry has to find a way to get the best that can be gotten from any source, and pay for that advance. Tough problem, no easy answer! Regards, Ken