From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , Ellen K.
 wrote:
>What I meant is that it seems no matter what the thread topic, you find
>a way to turn it into "Microsoft is terrible because _______".    You
>just did it again below.

Yes, he does. Do you think he is wrong to do so?

My question is prompted by having just read the 1986 book "Big
Blue", by Richard Thomas DeLamarter. It's the story behind IBM's
monopolisation of the IT market and the techniques it used to do so. The
author was a senior exconomist for the US Govt for 8 years of the 1969
antitrust case against IBM.

As I read the introduction to the book I became aware that, simply by
exchanging the word "Microsoft" for the word "IBM", it
would apply as exactly to Microsoft as it had to IBM. Anyone studying the
recent antitrust cases against Microsoft and the company's current
behaviour (and, in fact, looking for an indication of what it is likely to
do next) would do well to read this book.

Although the author may be discounted as having an agenda - I got the
impression that he felt that the Govt's last-minute dismissal of the case
was politically motivated - I found his numbers added up. (And so they
should, they came from impeccable sources including IBM's own records). The
book also explained several things I saw and read while working at IBM that
had puzzled me at the time.

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Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand
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