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To: nommedeguerre who wrote (19935)	6/5/1998 5:16:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

<The U.S. competitors are chiefly Western Europe and Japan. Look at the size of these nations, their available resources, and the fact that their economies were either bankrupt or destroyed at the end of WWII. They spent 20-30 years rebuilding their industries.> That is why Europe is so far ahead of us in structured energy products. That is probably why Japan was so far ahead of us in efficient managerial processes such as JIT inventory. <Coke has a natural monopoly yet the price of "sugar/water" has not exactly been dropping in accordance with economies-of-scale now has it. Same old recipe, same old price. Although I hear that the new Diet Coke "sucks less" than the old Diet Coke...> How do you know? Do you even knwo what you are paying for when you buy Coke? Coke's primary ingredient is brand. They can make a 100% profit on the tangible ingredients and still charge 30 cents a can. So how much do the expenses to build and maintain that brand cost, adn how is it beign amortized. You don't know because you are too busy insulting others. <Americans innovate because they are in a highly competitive business environment which promotes the idea that if you innovate you can make a buck, hopefully alot of them. Microsoft sent out a clear message with the browser that if you innovate and it upsets their self-proclaimed "manifest destiny", they will use any unethical means at their disposal to eradicate a superior product not through innovation alone but through tying, leveraging, coercing, dumping, etc.> It seems to me that Microsoft sent a clear message to entrepeneurs that you could make a lot of money with clever ideas re: active X controls (a lively adn lucrative market) and complementary software. NSCP inovated nothing, so I don't see where your comment comes close to making any sense.