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echo: askacop
to: RYAN BAGUEROS
from: RD THOMPSON
date: 1998-04-23 16:09:00
subject: Re: Choices

Hi Ryan, as you were just saying about Re: Choices....
RB> KA> If Bill G$ was as unethical as you seem to think, he would spend all 
RB> KA> his time in court and have no time to spend any of his money. Biil 
RB> KA> made that money by beingsharp enough to sense what the consumer 
RB> KA> wanted and providing it. Do I agree with Bill G's marketing 
RB> KA> practices? Nope. But I am not prepared to back any charge that it's 
RB> 
RB> Hey, that's a good point, Kent. Until you realize that Bill Gates
RB> DOES spend  all his time in court! ... unless you forget the
RB> numerous anti-trust suits  brought by the Department of Justice
There have been two, including the current one.
RB> , as
RB> well as industry- wide outrage at M$'s  business practices.  
This is from about half of the industry.  The other half feels that it
owes it success to Microsoft.
FWIW, I am not a Microsoft fan and have refused to use most of their
products until being  forced into it.   It is rather hard to support a
majority of my customers without that background.  :^(
RD 
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