To: mozek who wrote (8191 ) 5/31/1998 3:44:00 PM From: M31 Respond to
Mozek -- Re: You don't sound very objective about the whole thing. Sounds more like some pretty strong personal feelings against Bill Gates. Do you know him, or is he just a scapegoat for your frustration? The thing that strikes anybody who has followed the fortunes of this extraordinary company and which puzzles both friend and foe is the absolute refusal of Bill Gates to accept the responsibilities that go with monopoly-or even that he has a monopoly. after Christian Wildfeuer's alleged memo: "It seems clear that it will be very hard to increase browser market share on the merits of IE 4 alone. It will be more important to leverage the OS asset to make people use IE instead of Navigator." ...Of course McNealy's a simple working man with family roots in the all-American auto industry and a hockey playing son named "Maverick", so when he says softly in an NPR interview that "no one will get sued for using Java" we should all believe him. BTW, this was prior to Sun suing Microsoft over Java... "strategic objective" was to "kill cross-platform Java by grow[ing] the polluted Java market." cross-platform Java the whole point? How is killing that in the best interests of consumers? You know, if rather than attacking Microsoft, you just wanted to see a better IE, you could let them know specifically what features/improvements you'd like to see. You'd be surprised at their receptiveness to customer feedback.
