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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (18077)	3/18/1998 7:34:00 PM
From: drmorgan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Nader tries a new tactic against Microsoft: With the U.S. Department of Justice's future course of action regarding Microsoft Corp. still uncertain, public advocate Ralph Nader is taking matters into his own hands yet again. Nader has sent letters to six top PC makers--Compaq Computer Corp., Dell Computer Corp., Gateway 2000 Inc., Micron Technology Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Packard Bell NEC--asking them to offer consumers "the opportunity to buy computers with non-Microsoft operating systems pre-installed." Nader urges the hardware vendors to consider alternatives such as Linux, BeOS, Caldera Inc.'s OpenDOS/Spider and Apple Computer Inc.'s Rhapsody. What, no OS/2? One of the main reasons I'm not using OS/2 or one of the others that Nader mentions is my CAD software, which won't be porting to other OS's anytime soon. zdnet.com

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (18077)	3/19/1998 3:54:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

As Big as Microsoft: Ribbing Gates nytimes.com Oh dear. The august NYT picks up on the oft noted phenomenon. They slip up a little on this one, missing the canonical list of anti-msft web sites that CNET usually includes in its stories. Shortly after Gates was ambushed last month in Brussels by five men throwing cream pies at him, for instance, a simple computer game called "Pie Bill Gates" began circulating as an attachment to e-mail messages. I got that email from my brother. The one who isn't a machead. In another point-and-click game, this one on the Internet, computer users are invited to replace Gates's corporate casual attire, a blazer and khakis, with something "more appropriate for a minor deity." Minor deity? What slander! We all know Bill's A-#1. A major deity if there ever was one. Blasphemy! Send in the lawyers! If Microsoft could go after the t-shirt guy, they should go after these people too. Cheers, Dan.