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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (2737)	1/16/1999 10:23:00 AM
From: SpongeBrain	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 41369

No please explain more, I done mean to sound standoff'ish. Again, people seem to like buddy chat as a reason to subscribe AOL. You can get a little app that allows you to do this for free, without having AOL. AOL gives it away on their site. Cyber community? Why limit yourself to a subset? I'm simply saying that everthing that AOL offers in their software can (or will be) found on the web for free (and with more people) and connection methods will change. Even if they keep up, users will get more saavy as time goes on. People will use their services less and less and there will be less of an incentive to use AOL. They simply have MOMENTUM b/c they were the forerunner, and most people are content w/ it. My mother isn't gonna switch from AOL until a BIG impetus to do so is provided. So I guess we'll wait and see, but I'm just not as bullish as the rest of the world, b/c I do see a downside, that's all. On a side note: Windows is JUST FINE for mass public. The idiot mass media suggesting that LINUX will unseat MS shows what the computing industry has getten to. A total joke, people just talk and sling buzzwords, and have no clue. Sheep & hype. The people who are UNIX proponents are posing as computer purists but in reality are simply jealous of Bill Gates. They just want to be differentr for the sake of being nonconforminst. (I would guess that Mac people are that to the next degree, but I dont know any, or even used one , so I'll shut about that topic. ) This is dangerous in the computing indistry, as the name of the game is standards. Yea yea, people will argue that MS is the definition of nonstandard. But as far as Avg. Joe who needs to use MS-office and surf the web, MS is here to stay. Talk about Momentum, haha. I work with MANY anti-MS/pro-UNIX people, who program for a living. Its uncanny but these are the ones I would suspect to have deep psychologial issues that they let interfere with their professional judgement.