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To: ed who wrote (11775)	10/25/1998 2:10:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 74651

Dear ed: Very insightful. We don't truly have a free market economy. The Fed, FTC and DOJ would like to totally manage it as if bureaucratic appointees possessed all the combined wisdom of the world. This seems to be the current political mindset. It seems that in something akin to Conrad's Heart of Darkness we have become very much like that which we have defeated. It is all borne out of this government is master ether that pervades the liberal camp. Unfortunately this unsavory pollution is corruting the minds of the rest of the country who believe that government should take care of all our needs from the cradle to the grave. Ah security. JFD

To: ed who wrote (11775)	10/25/1998 3:29:00 PM
From: drmorgan	Respond to of 74651

In the business world, companies which can deliver better products will always win and those can't will always lose, so as times go, those companies which can deliver better products will always win and eventually dominate the market Better products? The Macintosh architecture in 1989 was definitely step forward for personal computing. A nice GUI, ability to add peripherals with no problems, no screwing around with a bunch of poorly written software drivers etc, etc...Simply put Apple delivered a better product! Did they dominate? In terms of operating systems I could go on all day about the superiority of OS/2 over Windows in many areas, especially stability, but what happened here? You are absolutely wrong! Companies that deliver "better" products will not always win. There are many example's of this and I am sure you are aware of that. One thing that MSFT has to be admired for is their marketing, IBM could sure use a lesson from them, just look at OS/2.