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To: Thure Meyer who wrote (19201)	5/17/1998 7:44:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

You don't do any accounting for Microsoft per chance? RFLOL..nope. Never even drove through Redmond. Never owned MSFT stock. I do have some MSFT June 85 call options right now though. First time for MSFT options, so I've not yet completed a trade in any MSFT securities or derivatives. re Copying Windows from PARC, Apple, et.al. was wildly innovative. Are you in favor of re-opening the "look and feel" lawsuits between AAPL and MSFT? Apple copied the icons/mouse/pull-down menus concept from PARC. That's common knowledge. There were lawsuits brought by Apple (ironically) against Microsoft. I didn't follow the case closely, but it was decided if I remember correctly that the "look and feel" was not something a company could patent. Doing so would kind of cripple the software/programming industry. The programming languages were designed to be the tools/bricks/mortar to create useful applications for computers. Since I've never worked for MSFT nor known anyone who has, I have no idea what they've innovated or what they've simply re-created on their own with programming. But the fact is, obviously they've done a heck of a lot of programming. And like it or not, MSFT is the one that created the whole Win95 landscape that we (I ) enjoy today. If MacIntosh had had their way, we might be all still looking at 9" black and white screen computers that we paid $2,000 for. Oh yeah I forgot, they had to make tiny black and white screens so the units would be "affordable". MSFT built a better mouse-trap. Whether they stole ideas, re-engineered, or outright bought out smaller innovating companies, why should I care as the consumer, as long as MSFT is giving me something that nobody else has been capable of lashing together and getting out there in the market space. Makes no diff to me. If you want to start giving geek-awards, that's fine. Obviously Bill Gates didn't single handedly do everything. But neither did Apple or Netscape. I keep mentioning Tim Berners-Lee, but nobody seems to want to give him any credit. Perhaps that's because it takes a little glory from the Netscape whiz kids. Anyway I'll always have a geek-award for Bill Gates, because he da man that delivered everything, and continues to do so.