Hello Tom!
17 Feb 98 07:00, Tom Walker wrote to Richard Perry:
 RP>   >> with a double-click.  OTOH, I prefer Netscape Navigator to
 RP>   >> MS Internet Explorer, and I don't care at all for MS's idea
 RP>   >> to make the entire GUI work like a Web browser; this could
 RP>>
 RP>> I agree with you.  I hate the whole idea.  Seems like the entire
 RP>> concept will get crammed down the public's throat!
 TW>  And unless the DOJ gets with teh program and Nails "Bill the Tyrant"
 TW> it will happen. Microsoft has a strangle hold on the PC market.
 TW>                                                         But so far he
 TW> is simple Thumbing his Nose at the Goverment effort to reign him in.
Look, you missed out on a great chance of the government telling everyone 
what's good for them, it was called The Soviet Union.  You would have felt 
right smack at home in old Moscow.
"Bill the Tyrant"???  What kind of dumb nonsense is this?  You don't like 
Bill or his products, simple: don't buy them!  Last time I checked, we were 
still in a free market zone, despite the Democrats being in charge at the 
moment?
Go ahead and buy yourself Unix, OS/2 or get the free Linux or OpenDOS and be 
happy.  But don't bitch and complain when Microsoft gives you a half-decent 
product for a half-decent price and call Bill a Tyrant.  If it wasn't for 
Bill, you'd be buying your stuff from IBM.... and do you remember what life 
was like when they practically owned the PC market???  Makes Bill look like a 
choir boy!
Remember the arrogance of Lotus and WordPerfect, when they were absolute 
rulers in their fields (spreadsheets and worprocessors)???  Remember the 
prices, the copy protection schemes, the limited upgradability nonsense, etc? 
 Who brought them to their knees?  Bill!  And how?  By delivering a =better= 
product for less money, speak: the Office suite, which became the corporate 
standard.
I suggest before you attack Bill Gates, you do a bit of research into the 
history of the PC and get a clue as to where this industry would be without 
him.  I can assure you, you would not have liked the alternative!
Strange, the mental midgets at the DOJ didn't say a word when =Netscape= had 
a virtual exclusive / monopoly on browsers.  Now that Microsoft has a 40% 
marketshare in the browser business, all hell brakes lose!  And how much did 
Microsoft charge for their excellent browser?  Nothing!!!  Is that a crime?
Tell me something, what happened to the price of RAM the last time your 
ignorant DOJ got involved in the free market?  And who paid the price for 
their stupidity?
Cheers, Hans
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