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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (881)	5/8/1998 4:35:00 PM
From: P.T.Burnem	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

Jobs screwed up. Apple screwed up and lost. SUN lost. They just plain lost. The other day John Sculley said that he felt Gates was a "tough but fair" competitor, and that this politcal action against them was absurd (paraphrasing here). Now, why would the former chairman of the biggest "victim" of MS thinks this? Because it would be un-PC for him to say: "my successors at Apple screwed up". Microsoft has won the desktop OS war fair and square. However, they have employed every dirty trick on the book to screw other Windows application developers. Now they are trying to take control over the Internet that has prospered in no small part due to Microsoft's technological backwardness and shortsightedness. Last but not least: if Microsoft does not derive an unfair competitive advantage from their de-facto desktop OS monopoly, a breakup of the company should not hurt, and may even enhance, the shareholders value (cf. T and LU). PTB

To: Robert Winchell who wrote (881)	5/8/1998 4:50:00 PM
From: Dragonfly	Respond to of 1600

This is in response to John F. Dowd. Somehow SI messed up. Elected to what? - never elected. Appointed to everything and finally appointed even to Chancellor. You are flat out wrong. Are you so bullheaded that I'm going to have to go get the history book and quote it for you? I find it interesting that you felt the need to start calling me names. For someone who claims to be a Christian, you sure are mean-spirited and intollerant. Did you know Hitler was a Christian too? Dragonfly