Franki wrote:

>Don't laugh.. it might be a good thing if they bring this in..
>
>Then you'll have Palladium users, and the rest of the world..
>
>Sorta like the "microsoft network" when it first started..
>they wanted their own internet, unfortunatly noone else did.
>
>besides.. they'd end up in court again so quickly...
>
True - it's tempting to be overawed by the MS Empire, but we should 
remember their "revolutionary" projects which went belly-up almost 
immediately: MSN, active desktops, Windows ME ....  MS relies on its 
being a de facto standard (as opposed to a real standard): people want 
to exchange Word documents, share data with Access, share viruses with 
Outlook and so on. Splitting that "community" by creating a new 
"standard" would remove Microsoft's only advantage.

Sir Robin

-- 
"It suits the poet himself to be dutifully chaste,
his verses not necessarily so at all" - Catullus

Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent �niversitesi
Ankara 06533

http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin




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