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

To: M31 who wrote (8170)	5/29/1998 10:09:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

OK Carlos. I know your wiser than the average person from the things you write. Keep on writing! These poor guys don't understand. They can buy a Mac or a Sparc or they can run Linux and if enough people opt away from MSFT they will have the new de facto standard. This guy likes order. It seems that there is plenty of order in the MSFT camp. If there weren't there would not be so many third party apps. that are so readily available for the Windows System. These are confused minds complaining about the very thing they created. The consumer made Gates and the consumer should he choose to do so can break him. But please let's not turn this over to the government. It seems that all these weenies want to turn everything over to the government. Just think - Stalin killed all those people and wasted all that ammo when he should have just waited for moral entropy to take over. Had he been a real socialist instead of a dictator they would have been hoards of people like this guy storming the Kremlin begging to surrender their personal liberty in exchange for the false and illusory comfort promised to the believers of the cradle to the grave all knowing big brother government. These creeps give me the creeps! John

To: M31 who wrote (8170)	5/30/1998 3:13:00 PM
From: Carlos Blanco	Respond to of 74651

<<...consumers and producers should be left unregulated...>> Sorry, you're in the wrong country! Try Somalia. I believe they're still in a state of anarchy. You shouldn't take selected parts of my sentence out of context to make it appear scandalous. From the the rest of the sentence it's clear that I was referring to lack of marketplace regulations wrt. producing, selling, and buying products. I do not advocate no rules or no government. I advocate the two rules which government was instituted to enforce and protect from physical violation: right to your life and the right to your property. All individual actions are subordinate to these two rules. These are not rights to a prosperous company and life, nor are they rights to market or ship your product or property via any particular vehicle. They are merely rights to set the licensing terms for your intellectual or physical property, and to make your property available for use under those terms. That's is why I support Microsoft's right to: create any product they wish with any features they wish set whatever licensing terms they wish for the usage of such products talk (not act) wrt. their competitors in whatever manner they see fit The above do not affect anyone else's rights wrt. their property--anyone can still freely: create comparable (or differing) products set their terms for the licensing and use of such products speak and think about Microsoft in whatever way they want in their own private or public e-mails Rules and rights should either apply equally to all, or to none. Denying Microsoft the right to determine features and licensing terms for its intellectual property while simultaneously allowing everyone else to keep such rights is fundamentally discriminatory and wrong. And it's particularly perverse that the reason given for imposing such a handicap is that the company has sold more units of its product than anyone else. --Carlos

To: M31 who wrote (8170)	5/30/1998 8:33:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Microsoft has violated the rules and will have to answer for it. Correction: You think that Microsoft has violated the rules. The DOJ also thinks that Microsoft has violated the rules. You're right though in that Microsoft will have to answer the charges. I am certain that we're all better off not having Bill telling us what's best for us. I agree! I have to assume you're talking about Bill Clinton. Bill Gates doesn't tell you what's best for you. If you like his product, you buy it. If you don't like it, there are alternatives. tigerdirect.com Oh I know, some people don't want to buy a PC from TigerDirect. They want Dell Computer to sell a PC without the OS, or with an OS of their choosing. Well I have news: Dell doesn't offer a PC without the OS preloaded, and as a private store, they are not obligated to sell a PC preloaded with something that they don't sell. Perhaps your idea of a good government-mandated solution is to require Dell Computer to offer PCs with any software of your choosing preloaded? Oh I know: Let's have OS quotas.