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- From: boutell@isis.cshl.org (Tom Boutell)
- Subject: Re: DISMANTLE MICROSOFT (Was Re: Industry market shares)
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- Keywords: Microsoft
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- Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Labs
- References: <1993Jan20.175346.14193@netcom.com> <1993Jan21.160142.7877@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <1993Jan22.073622.21914@reed.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:10:08 GMT
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- Boy howdy I tellya, Microsoft is evil evil evil, yup.
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- Of course, never mind that for a company without competition to worry about,
- they have a strange tendency to keep producing new and better products.
- Never mind, more importantly, that these figures utterly ignore the
- issue of international competition. No, there isn't much international
- competition for the U.S. software giants yet. There wasn't much for
- the U.S. automakers at one point either.
-
- If Microsoft were sitting around in a fat, lazy fashion, as the
- U.S. automakers were when the Japanese wave hit, that'd be one thing.
- But as it is, they're quite competitive and they're consistently improving
- their products. Some of us have our beefs with their compilers, but
- it's hard to deny that Excel is the most powerful spreadsheet
- yet built.
-
- I agree that a split of Microsoft might be beneficial to the
- industry, but I hope it won't be done ham-fistedly, with the backing
- of those who "have it in" for Microsoft. Software is an unusual
- market: it's one in which the U.S. holds both a production and
- a technological lead. Microsoft, as the spearhead of that market, is
- a significant national asset, and if we do break it up we'd best
- do it in such a way as not to ruin its competitiveness.
-
- -T
-
- --
- Tom Boutell, boutell@cshl.org
-
- Clausthaler is the best non - alcoholic beer in the known universe.
-