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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (9242)	3/16/1998 9:12:00 AM
From: qdog	Respond to of 152472

Yes Korea is doing a fast come about, mate. I read an editorial in the local biz section this weekend that traces the roots of SA economic turnaround to Chile. In that article it mentions Asia need to model it's recovery based on what Chile did back in the the 1970's and early 80's, on the economic front. Of course it was to privatize state monopolies and promote competition. Hope they don't adopt the death squad thing. I think you are going to get frustrated when you try to use that upgreade copy on a new machine. Firstly, you will have a brand new OEM disk that the manufacture has a slave copy from the demons of Redmond. Of course the Demons get a healthy profit for giving the box makers a slave copy. Now if I was Compaq, I'd cut the price of that software to $10 and give MSFT $7!! Probably and instant $150 savings to the consumer. Boy would that be 'turnabout fair play' for the demons of Redmond. What the hell, that is exactly what Gates did to Spyglass, who got a total of $16 million from MSFT for it's hard work, done at a government financed university supercomputing center, which MSFT doesn't contribute. Damn government should do a better job with the peoples IPR's!! Your tone and tenor, infers total uselessness, for that I apologize. I didn't realize that it is only 70%. Thanks for the clarification. I still maintain MSFT is a monopoly, but only by 90%!! MSFT has done little for the Internet. It will however figure out a way to profit handsomely from it in the form of transaction cost and naturally software that I'll pay for over and over again. MSFT taxes the user but the state governments can't....hmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!! Ben Franklin did the kite and key thing........... Also was instrumental in founding the U.Sgovernment.... QCOM will never be in the league of MSFT. Margins aren't the same. Besides, MSFT will assimilate Eudora........