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To: trouthead who wrote (3708)	12/31/1998 5:49:00 PM
From: Moose	Respond to of 29970

<<I would be very surprised if when broadband is more common and the backbone is in place to handle the extra load that AOL won't participate>> If I might inject: COULDN'T AGREE MORE I liken AOL's participation in BB to Intel's scramble to play in the "basic PC" field. A little late, but with a little money and a great brand name - a savvy company can jump back in the ring with renewed energy! -Moose

To: trouthead who wrote (3708)	12/31/1998 11:28:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

If you go back through this thread, you'll find that I don't hate AOL. You always have to respect a pioneer no matter how stinky they are. I have specific criticisms of Case, and the way they are complaining to the FCC. I don't like the way they have handled IE, nor do I like the way they handled IE at the trial, nor the deal in the middle of the trial. If I were Jackson, I'd throw the suit out of court immediately. It snubs due process and it turns state's evidence de facto. The judge and others involved have egg on their faces for ever entertaining this ridiculous nonsense in the first place. It's only a matter of quietly dismantling it, so the populists don't cry MSFT bribe. Please don't say I'm prejudiced towards MSFT. You also can find in various threads endless vituperation towards them from me, because I'm like everyone else, I run WINXXX. I don't like their monopolistic hubris, arrogance, indifference to market dynamic, abuse of mass mailing, garbagy interface, lousy service, incompetent support, raising prices (public said, raise them again for us and make us feel special). But what really hacks it is when one of my computer illiterate friends dropped ELNK to take AOL because they have chat. I couldn't tell him that chat wasn't uniquely AOL, I just had to accept that people are blind fools and they'll choose the bad most of the time. Then they'll complain and blame their failures on the good. Civilization didn't get as far as it has because people have power, only because none have any power. This fact will eventually play to broadband and to ATHM in particular. So you see that I don't hate them, I detest them, but that wasn't the case several months ago. The change came when they went whining to the the FCC. I kept seeing that bastion of competition, NSCP, and the failure they perpetrated on themselves though they had every opportunity to seize the initiative and put it to MSFT. Instead they crawled to government like a worm. I smelled AAPL, SUNW, ORCL, and a few other bloated, uncompetitive, monopolistic elephants, whispering in Barfsdale and Andreassen's ears. "Pull down MSFT so the market can be free of cut throat competition. That isn't right behavior in our socially prioritized twinkie and milquetoast society".