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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (19430)	5/19/1998 2:19:00 PM
From: Thure Meyer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

"In the US, the socio-economic majority decides, that just about the end of the story. " Yeah, its like going to a restaurant where the menu was created by the advertisers, the manufacturers and everybody else that wants your dollar. Now as you scan this fabulous selection, you notice that what you really wanted isn't on the menu? So you order number 5 and everyone triumphantly exclaims, see...the customer has decided. Clearly you don't understand how things work. New ideas emerge all the time and they are not on the menu. The economy is a time based emergent system which is not decided on by the socio-enonomic majority alone. There is a lot of path dependence systems of this kind which makes them sensitive to initial conditions. We are discussing the construction of the menu (if you will). And the evolution of that socio-economic majority (whatever that means). Let me paraphrase an anonymous quote which I like "The future is here now, its just not distributed evenly" Thure

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (19430)	5/19/1998 6:47:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Respond to of 24154

Reggie, >>In the US, the socio-economic majority decides, that just about the end of the story. Unless you read the addendums on cutting-off air-supplies and leveraging OS's to sell browsers that people did not want for free! Cheers, Norm

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (19430)	5/19/1998 8:31:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>>In the US, the socio-economic majority decides, that just about the end of the story.<<< I don't think the 'socio-economic majority' is concentrating on the definition of an OS yet, unless you can surprise me about what a 'socio-economic majority' is. Maybe you could, I've never run across the term before. Nevertheless, we would just have another name for the local machines OS, the networking system, the Net, and the browser before you could get a fresh edition of 'the computer dictionary' out. The 'reality' would remain. Of course it would change too, but I don't think MSFT is going to win this one by declaring all software to be part of the OS, or even browsers. If they did succeed in convincing us of that, it might help them with their may-june 1998 problem but not their 1999 problem. Because this definition of the OS would just make it that more mandatory to regulate them. Cheers, Chaz