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To: The Phoenix who wrote (13737)	4/30/1998 12:19:00 PM
From: Helios	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

Those "yahoo's" in the government know exactly what they are doing. They're a bunch of extortionist that can make the mafia look like kittens. Microsoft has not been paying its dues in the form of campaign contributions and now they stand a chance of having their knees blown off. I expect that in the end they will knuckle under.

To: The Phoenix who wrote (13737)	4/30/1998 12:38:00 PM
From: JRH	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

************OT OT (sorry CSCO folks) OT OT************** Gary: I don't think that I have ever disagreed with you, but since this discussion is OT, I will go ahead and do it. I watched a portion of the trials when BG testified and all. I really liked the idea of Mr. McNealy from SUNW. He advocates that we should have different OS's that all meet certain criteria (i.e. would run the same programs) competing against each other. Personally, I like the idea of choosing between different GUI OS's. Right now, I can choose from Win95 (or 98, in June), NT, or Linux X-Win. Just look at Linux. That is a good example of what should be going on. We have multiple vendors to choose from, different GUI's to choose from, but essentially they all run the same programs. What is the effect of that? All of them are stable enough to run web servers that stay up w/o rebooting for weeks! What is the effect of Microsoft's monopoly? I have an OS that requires reboot (whether I like it or not) once a day. Or I could fork out a couple hundred and get an OS that is a little more stable, NT. I hope the Linux community world-wide comes up with an OS that will reliably run Windows apps so that I can switch over to use their GUI full time. Your response and comments are welcome. Sorry to digress so far off the topic :o) JRH

To: The Phoenix who wrote (13737)	4/30/1998 1:20:00 PM
From: wiley murray	Respond to of 77400

Gary: Your point is well taken on MSFT. What ever happened to the FREE enterprise system?

To: The Phoenix who wrote (13737)	4/30/1998 4:21:00 PM
From: James A. Shankland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

Don't these fools [DOJ] understand that a common platform is required to maintain the integrity of the net and to maintain compatibility between desktops and servers... Agree completely. We should also have only one brand of car. The mind boggles at the staggering inefficiency of having all these different car brands, each with its own catalog of spare parts and gratuitous incompatibilities. How many accidents result from someone using a car not their own, and finding controls in different places? If we all drove the same car, it would be uniformly perceived to be of excellent quality, as no-one would have anything to compare it against. This is a good thing. In my opinion, Microsoft should simply buy the entire Internet outright. Lord knows they're rich enough to do so, and they'd be performing a valuable public service. Think about the advantages of conformity! Sure, the whole Internet would have to be rebooted every few days, but that's a small price to pay for true interoperability. Open standards will never work as well as a de facto standard unilaterally defined by a huge corporation that has our best interests at heart. That's my modest proposal, anyway.