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To: Carl Wysocki who wrote (8460)	3/22/1998 5:53:00 PM
From: John Chen	Respond to of 64865

Carl,:"thin/fat". This is not easy to slant one way or another. I see the need of ONE FAT machine per Household for the reason you mention 'privacy'. The fat machine maybe cheap, but the software is not cheap to keep up with. As I type, you maybe right too. I could just buy one copy of the software and move it around in the house (Manually) since the software can be executed 'one at a time' not simultaneously on multiple machines. Nah, some kind of 'networking' is still required. Moving the software around is only part of the problem, the data associate the software still needs to be moved around. Well, I just guide myself back to ONE-FAT and 'N-thin' with Networking. I would have the FAT one loaded with WinXX and Linux and the THIN-ones with Linux(It's free and the networking is more stable at this time, also there is lot of Free software on Linux). An application is an application once it starts running. That's my perception of software. If JVM is more readily availably than Linux or winXX, then better. Open, open, open. Choice, choice, choice. Could MSFT face the same as INTC? Alternative OSs vs alternative CPUs. It's exciting time. Who would think PC is good enough to be a Unix/Linux machine even 12 months ago?