In agreement again.

Happy New Year !!
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From "Ted Ashton" <[log in to unmask]>, on 12/24/97 1:08 PM:
Sorry, Denys, but I come down on the same side of this one.  This isn't a
matter of being successful.  It's a matter of using one's monopoly to pound
the other guy into the dirt.  Microsoft does, and unfortunately will have
for
some time to come, pretty close to monopoly in the PC OS market.  When they
start bundling stuff with the OS, it has the following effects:
  1) In the short term, everyone is now paying for more software than they
     need.  Sure, call IE explorer free--you're still paying a price and
     getting software you didn't necessarily want.
  2) In the short term, it will cut Netscape's profits.  "Why do I need
another
     browser, this one came with my OS?"
  3) In the long term, it threatens to put Netscape out of business.  All
these
     folk who cut their teeth on IE will now be used to it and will buy it
     (once Microsoft does start charging for it) instead and will recommend
it
     to their friends and relatives and so forth.
It seems to me (on short reflection) that Netscape's only recourse is to
jump
in a write an OS which is 100% compatible with Win '98 and works better and
market it like crazy.  Maybe they can ship an OS free with their browser. .
. .

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had
declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the
theoreticians, whose language mathematics. She had not understood
mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language
of relationships. "And relationships," he had told her, "contained the
essential meaning of life."
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