From: Ellen K. 

To answer your question:
1.  From my side, it is tiresome to constantly find these off-topic
anti-Microsoft comments in almost every thread. 2.  From Mike's side, as I
originally stated I think this is a poor use of energy that could be better
spent on something productive.  I suppose this reveals my personal
experience that one's energy is finite.

Regarding the book you mention:
I don't think this is at all the same as writing a book whose purpose is to
expose all the things the author thinks are negative about a company. I
would have no objection if Mike decided to write such a book about
Microsoft, in fact I think that would be a much more productive outlet for
his feelings.

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:24:54 +1200, black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)
wrote in message :

>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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