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To: SteveHC who wrote (11764)	4/17/1998 11:59:00 PM
From: David Semoreson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213176

Press is barred from AAPL shareholders meeting!!! Why??? What is Jobs up to ??? biz.yahoo.com

To: SteveHC who wrote (11764)	4/18/1998 1:08:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213176

Steve, MSFT's monopoly is a narrow one. For example if Apple had sold their OS for years and allowed anyone at all to make clones then Apple would now be like MSFT, a software only house.And the Wintel empire may well have been smaller than Apples and Apple and MSFT would be more or less equals with the two main OS. Apple might be twice as big as MSFT?? MSFT is more profitable than Apple as it makes little hard ware. Years ago the choice was made to be a broad proprietary company. MSFT cares not who makes the box. Intel cares not whose OS runs on it's chips. Each maximises it's own abilities. With a proprietary system no-one else makes the box or the OS, so you are limited to your own ideas and capital resources. In evolutionary terms it is a blind ally, no evolution, no advancement, but ti can endure for a long time and make money. How does Apple recapture the glory days? What is that path? Perhaps Jobs will provide some insights at the meeting. Bill