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To: Hal Rubel who wrote (7878)	5/23/1998 12:46:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 74651

Eight years late into the market place is hardly "innovation". When you consider that previous to Win98 a Wintel user wanting multiple monitor support would have to buy a $1,000 video card, whereas now with Win98 it's essentially free with a new PC,...I could care less where the idea came from; I'm not in the business to give out brownie buttons for research; I'm the user of the OS. How many artists get wealthy? Is the world fair in how the money gets distributed? Is it right that Michael Jordon gets $20 million per season? The argument to me is not whether or not Microsoft is the original inventors of the technology. What matters to me is whether or not Microsoft is sharing and helping the industry grow. Did you miss the part of Bill Gates' response last Monday where he talked about Microsoft's 1,000 technology partners, and where he mentioned that the PC industry now employs 7 million Americans (in a prior post I quoted this as 7 million worldwide, but he said Americans)? Let me ask you a question, Hal: How many Americans would be employed in the PC industry today if it were up to Apple? Whatever your number would be, I suspect that the majority of them would all be working at Apple. I'm not going to waste time with a company with such a selfish attitude. We can see how big the PC industry would be today if it were up to Apple: Just count how many people are employed at Apple. The bottom line is this, Hal: A whole lot of people hate Microsoft, because they want some of that revenue that Microsoft takes in. I say that Microsoft deserves what they take in, because of the fact that they have always had the goal of growing the whole industry for everyone's benefit, not just Microsoft's. steps down off soapbox

To: Hal Rubel who wrote (7878)	5/23/1998 1:08:00 AM
From: fishweed	Respond to of 74651

Hal, who's on first? It was Xerox that inspired Jobs who inspired Gates. But I would venture to guess you are not running a Xerox OS on your computer.

To: Hal Rubel who wrote (7878)	5/23/1998 1:41:00 AM
From: FR1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Hal - I don't understand why you are disturbed at the speed of innovation. Yeah, Apple beat MSFT to the market with a lot of ideas and MSFT beat Apple with some. Don't forget that it was MSFT (not Apple) that did most of the early work on the Apple interface (that is where windows came from - remember the suit?). There are lots of other examples. Right now, it is MSFT OS (not Sun OS - not Apple OS - not IBM OS - not BE OS - not SCO OS - not DEC OS and not any of the other OSs) that is the first to integrate the web into the OS. Oh yeah, speaking of innovation - it was at the 1936 World's Fair that IBM proudly introduced the first PC - a computer on a single board. It took their crack team of strike force scientists only 42 years to get it in a box (and that was after someone else beat them to it).