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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (8763)	11/6/1998 12:20:00 AM
From: MeDroogies	Respond to of 19080

1. MSFT is not efficient...unless you consider having the biggest treasury chest efficient. They have time and money on their side. 2. AAPL can survive without Office. But it would further erode the potential buying community, since MSFT used its OS to undermine Lotus and other office apps. Therefore, MSFT used a wedge to "create" a standard when there was no need for one. The world worked fine with Lotus and Quarterdeck and all the other competitors. Gates just hated having competition, so he used his OS to oust them. 3. MSFT won't put anyone out of business. Why? Gates is smart. He recognizes that if he actually does that, the DOJ REALLY has a case. So, keep them around, but keep them hanging by their fingernails. The time will come when he can snuff them and nobody will notice. 4. Being a Mac owner doesn't mean you have to be an MSFT apologist. You made a choice that works for you. Most people can't make that choice (I couldn't). I own AAPL stock, it's a great company. Still, MSFT is there not because of efficiency, but due to the emergence of a standard that occurred not BY CHOICE OF CONSUMER, but by WRIT OF OEM agreements.

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (8763)	11/6/1998 12:43:00 AM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

Changing the desktop isn't changing the O/S. You must be technically illiterate, as well as a bit unclear on the definitions of political dispositions. Your remarks make me wonder if you are the sort of person who calls themselves a conservative but is actually a reactionary (which is NOT someone that is even more conservative -- there is more than one dimension here). MSFT goes out of their way to make things like Netscape's browser not work well (as if they would have to given how buggy their crap is even when they try their best), but as far as I am concerned that's MSFT's business. It would be better for their business in the long run if they would just try to do a good job, but that's between them and their stockholders (I'm no longer one, because I am convinced that they are driving toward a brick wall whatever happens in this case -- but it will take them a long time to hit it, so don't start babbling about the efficiency of the stock market). Just to satisfy my morbid curiosity, are you completely against anti-trust laws, or do you just not understand (my view, not yours) what this case is about? For example, were you against the DOJ case against IBM?