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To: Dragonfly who wrote (1511)	2/19/1999 4:31:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Respond to of 1600

The difference is Apple, Sun and Oracle don't use criminal methods to make that money. (IBM did, but was put under significant constraints by the DoJ) Last I heard, your examples were "stealing" QuickTime, Stac compression code, and RealVideo. Now, are you saying these things are what made MS what it is today? Furthermore, Apple, Sun, IBM and Oracle are all putting out innovative products, as opposed to Microsoft which is killing innovation. Like what? Colored cases? What software innovations has Oracle come up with? Here is my question to you: Let's look back to 1987. Microsoft was already huge, based on the success of DOS. It was complete luck they got the DOS contract as we all know, but there it is. What have they done illegally at this point (which we'll call point A)? What are the alternatives at this point? Now, they release Windows 3.x. They get an even bigger part of the market. Word and Excel account for more than half of MS revenue, and have a huge part of the market. Why? What are they doing illegally at this point? What are people's alternatives now and why aren't they choosing them? We'll stop there for now. I'm interested in what people have to say.