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Re: Microslosh vision of the future
- From: William Warren
- Date: Mon Aug 12 09:43:38 2002
StarOffice to the rescue.
David Howe wrote:
at Monday, August 12, 2002 2:17 AM, David Schwartz
<[email protected]> was seen to say:
Microsoft can have whatever vision of the future they want and can
use any resources at their disposal to bring their vision to light.
Everybody has that right.
Nope, monopolies don't - the rules for a monopoly are tighter for the
very good reason the customer *can't* go somewhere else, he has to
decide to buy from them or go without (and in a world where not
accepting MS-formatted documents can lock you out of contracts you need
to keep in business, the pressure to go with the crowd is very high
indeed.
There *is* a gun pointed at their head, but it is financial (and smoking
:)
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May God Bless you and everything you touch.
My "foundation" verse:
Isiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
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