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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (18764)	4/27/1998 11:53:00 PM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

I'd love to see one of these Box-maker CEO's stand up to Microsoft and call their bluff: "You want to yank our windows license? Fine. Do it. We'll bundle Linux."

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (18764)	4/28/1998 2:45:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

OFF TOPIC - this is about the Quicktime 3 plugin for Netscape, which I'm pissed about. So this note is a time out from the usual MSFT bashing for a little Apple bashing. Recently, Apple did something that would have inflamed anyone if MSFT did it. Question is, hasn't Apple lost all of the warm and fuzzy feeling that lets them get away with this stuff yet? (??!) I sent them this note, which naturally I expect they will never respond to (I figure this because of my experiences from my time on the Apple Developer program): "Poor misused Apple serfs, I'm really disappointed in the cheesy way your Quicktime 3 plugin installs into Netscape. Quicktime took over the management of most of my media types without asking me or warning me, and now duns me to upgrade for payment every time I hit a page with one of those embedded types, for instance Midi. This is particularly annoying when one of my own web pages contains the midi, a fact that would not ordinarily have turned my web site into an unpaid Apple commercial. I can't seem to de-install it without giving up Quicktime 3, so I guess I'll have to go back to Quicktime 2.x. I'm posting this comment on Silicon Investor and wherever else it will do the most good. Frankly, it's this kind of thing that makes folks believe the only difference between Jobs and Gates is that Gates is smarter. Ciao, Chaz" There you have it. Sorry for the interruption. Now back to Dan's Scottie Terrier vs. King Kong show. Get'im, Dan. You speak for us all, which is good since we can't possibly keep up :-)