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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Harvey Allen who wrote (19286)	5/18/1998 3:42:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

<Reg- Mr and Mrs Baby Carriage wheeling through the shpping mall to buy something to connect to the Internet do not have a choice. Most will buy the Wintel special and few will bother or be able to use Netscape.> Read what you have typoed carefully. <Mr and Mrs Baby Carriage wheeling through the shpping mall to buy something to connect to the Internet do not have a choice.> There are Netscape Navigator boxes sitting right next to the IE boxes and Windows boxes. I fail to see what limits Mr. and Mrs. Baby Carriage from reaching out and dropping that box in thier carriage. <Most will buy the Wintel special and few will bother or be able to use Netscape.> And what prevents them from doing so. If anything, consumer ignorance or apathy for comparison shopping is in question here. If that is so, you cannot say that the consumer does not have a choice. Actuallky it is the exact opposite, they choose not learn about it. Does that mean that the DOJ should make SMFT contribute to NSCP's advertising and client education budget? <Tell me how you plan to get on the net without going thru Mr. Bill?> If Mr. Bill's competition made a mistake that let Mr. Bill win with better products, why would I want to get on without Mr. Bill. Is the government supposed to cripple MSFT until they lose? Suppose MSFT does ship NSCP with IE, and IE quickly rises to 95% market share. Will you then advocate more DOJ sponsored competitive advantages to the competition? At the rate we are going, the DOJ is going to turn Interent technology into a staid industry with heavy regulation and limited ROE, very much like the electric utilities. No more than 10% ROE, period....

To: Harvey Allen who wrote (19286)	5/18/1998 4:26:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Harvey, >>This is the delivery system that is being equated with the Railroads of the Sherman Anti-Trust days. How do you ship from NY to California without going thru Mr Vanderbilt? You don't. That's irrelevant though, because we all know how Vanderbilt helped the consumers: "His foible was opposition. Wherever his keen eye detected a line that was making a large profit...he swooped down and drove it to the wall, by offering better service and lower rates -- for a time. Then with the opposition driven out, he would raise his rates without pity, to the lasting misery of his clients." Cheers, Norm