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

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (10319)	8/26/1998 8:56:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I don't know what all the fuss is about other than as gates says the cos. have failed to beat them in the marketplace are trying to do it the good old communist way, beat them politically. Dowd, you fellow traveller you. I know it's futile, but I'll try once more to explain who the commies are here. At one point, Slivka proposed that Microsoft give away some software on the Net, as Netscape was doing. Gates, he recalls, ''called me a communist.'' (from businessweek.com ) Of course, Netscape never claimed that Nav was going to be "free forever". That would make Bill a higher breed of communist these days, eh? And just to show that Bill's doing his part on other fronts, remember this one? "Because of politics, some things are being forced on us that without political pressure we might not do, like Windows NT," Redman said. "If it were up to me I probably would not have used Windows NT in this particular application. If we used Unix, we would have a system that has less of a tendency to go down." (from gcn.com Good thing for us the Soviet military sort of collapsed, otherwise Bill's efforts on their behalf might be more worrisome. I'm sure this is the kind of politics you approve of, of course. That, UCC section 2B, WIPO, and the lesser Bill intervening for the greater Bill with those other commies in China- all that stuff is good, right? Plus Bill's "planned economy", as explained to Andy Grove. Gates said, "Intel deserves a lot of credit for stepping back." Grove replied, "We didn't have much of a choice. We basically caved." Gates objected to that characterization, but Grove stuck to his line. "We caved," the Intel chairman said. "Introducing a Windows-based software initiative that Microsoft doesn't support . . . well, life is too short for that." The kind of "innovation" Microsoft is famous for, there. Sounds like central planning to me. Remember, war is peace, ignorance is strength, and Windows is open. Cheers, Dan.