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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (19544)	5/20/1998 5:09:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

'Kiss-and-tell' MS book could use more kiss www5.zdnet.com Charles Cooper again, on the advance buzz on "Barbarians ... Bill Gates". I still hate that title, and from this column my previous assessment of the book as "Revenge of the Microserfs" seems to have misused the plural, there's apparently just one Microserf getting his revenge here. But, I got to quote a bit for one of those contextual irony things. That Gates and his chief lieutenants were making things up as they went along should come as little surprise to anyone who has followed the software industry for any period of time. Yet Edstrom and Eller make much of the fact that Microsoft doesn't innovate so much as it imitates. So? Well, I guess in the current context, the answer to the "So?" question is, the current #1 PR antitrust defense isn't "Microsoft must be free to imitate". Given the timing of the book and the commentary, I'd say "So?" is a bit disingenuous. That's just me and my small mind, though. Cheers, Dan.