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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (20607)	3/4/1998 9:09:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella	Respond to of 42771

(Off Topic) Bored with Asia, try the US Congress <Rep. Doolittle sits on Congress's Joint Economic Committee and represents a northern California district that includes companies such as Intel Corp., NEC Technologies Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., the congressman is no particular friend of the denizens of Silicon Valley. "They don't really give much money," the congressman complains matter-of-factly. And he questions the industry's ideological instincts as well, concluding: "They are basically political novices who are not taken all that seriously.">---WSJ What the Congressman is saying is that many of the people in the computer industry do not understand politics. The first rule of politics is never leave the defense of your interests to someone else. MSFT is able to leave it an open question as to whether it is a monopoly. There are people that haven't figured that out!!! So what should be going on in Silicon Valley is a campaign to explain to the public and the people working in the industry what a monopoly is (not bad or good just what it is). Talk about being politically naive. Gates history is based upon understanding how the system works better than the average techie engineer. How is it the computer industry has left ANY doubt in the public mind that Microsoft is a monopoly? Gosh I just can't understand how Bill Gates is so smart.