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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, October 24, 1998 7:01 AM
> How nice of you to rig this so that if we don't hit the group reply
> key, any critiques of your post go directly to you and not the group.
I did that? How did I do that? I just clicked "REPLY" on the message
I was commenting upon. According to my outbox, the message went to the
list handler at just4u.com, and I suppose they sent it on to you.
I do use my permanent remailer address at the ACM as my From: address
when mailing from my ISP account, but that shouldn't do what you said
I did. Does anybody know what I can do to fix the problem?
> What an effective strategy to muzzle those who disagree with you...
> ... I think it wise for us to check the headers whenever replying to MS
> apologists; from what I have seen, they don't all play fair, either!
Thank you. When it rains and you get wet, do you assume that God is out
to get you or that Microsoft is causing it to build market share?
> With their revenues, MS does not have to make an immediate
> profit on any product, like NS does.
Yeah, poor little Netscape, a $650,000,000 company that didn't exist 1500
days ago. I can see that they would really be surviving hand-to-mouth.
> ... It is a way of destroying creative people.
So true; the creative people have been completely driven out of
the industry.
> > ... IE4 is *vastly* superior
> > to NS4; I can't think of a single example where I've found it easier
> > to do something for NS than it was for IE. ...
>
> Baloney! (long rant about MS business practices elided)
Since you didn't comment on my opinion of the two browsers, I assume
that you agree with it.
> (Gates) stole the idea of Windows from Steve Jobs, and Steve stoll
> the idea from Xerox. (Stoll enough that Apple sued MS.)
And Xerox got the idea from Doug Englebart. I don't know if this
is documented, but I was there. (Note that Doug also invented the
mouse, and the two are somewhat related.) He was working for a
state university and on a DoD grant, so the idea was in the
public domain and no one can be said to have stolen it (not
even Cliff Stoll).
I have trouble taking anti-MS paranoia too seriously; the same
kinds of people are saying the same things about MS now that were
said about IBM twenty-five years ago. IBM had a larger share of
the market and more of a strangle-hold on it, but they were squashed,
first by Apple and then by MS. Microsoft will be replaced in turn
by The Next Big Company. Netscape had a chance to do it, had a
tremendous running start with the browser (which they didn't invent
either), but wasn't able to follow through with either substantive
improvements or innovations. So it won't be them.
Bob Munck
Mill Creek Systems LC
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