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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (7974)	5/25/1998 7:11:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Has the dumbing down of America moved into the business arena? It sure has. Imagine a government committee who has to approve each improvement in the OS, as was suggested by some dimwit in the press already. Here's the senario: Microsoft would have to contribute say $5 for each copy of Win98 it ships to a fund which is controlled by this OS committee. Everytime MS wanted to add or change a feature of the OS, they would have to submit a proposal to the committee. Then there would be an "incubation period" where the committee would see if anyone stepped forward to say they had already thought of that idea, and were "working on it". In that event, the committee would simultaneously deny MS the right to add the feature and hand over $1 million in startup money to the person who was already "working on" the new feature. The startup company would be given the official "blessing" of the committee. Then at some point in the future, if the startup company had some acceptable code, MS and other OS companies would be given the "opportunity" to bid on the new feature. Sounds like socialist utopia.