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To: Mkilloran who wrote (2981)	10/27/1998 6:32:00 PM
From: ERM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

<<WHAT IF??? AOL was given the same option to interconnect to @home as this...>> They have the option now. That press release can be summed up in one of its sentences: "Microsoft today announced that MSN (The Microsoft Network) is the first Internet online Premium Service to be marketed to @Home subscribers." Meaning, the only thing different between MSN and AOL, is that ATHM agrees to MARKET MSN. Otherwise AOL already has the same deal.

To: Mkilloran who wrote (2981)	10/27/1998 9:15:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Hey, you're stealing my hole cards. I believe you are completely correct that this will be the way the situation is resolved. The question is how to get there from here. AOL is acting like their market dominance is being threatened. They are proceeding along the NSCP line of attack. NSCP believes they are at a disadvantage because MSFT owns the operating system. NSCP has an opportunity to use this presumed disadvantage to convert into an advantage. The advantage is that NSCP isn't stuck with this hopeless mess OS. I have tried to convince the imbeciles on the NSCP thread that they should co-develop an alternative OS which I called NETUX, a browser-centric version of LINUX. NSCP does indeed have a skunkworks project putting this together. But instead of giving it top priority, what wars do, they would rather fight MSFT in court. The question is whether AOL is equivalently stupid. If they are, they will lose just like NSCP is going to lose. I provided a pricing structure, $25 to AOL, $15 to MSO + ATHM for high speed access. Everyone gains. No locking out, no nonsense. Simple.