Author: Slater Wold
Date: 20:22:20 08/08/01
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On August 08, 2001 at 15:46:31, Eran wrote: > >Due to the Microsoft scandal, we may be entering a period of technology crisis. Scandal? I am not sure if I'd call it a scandal. They wrote a contract, and made people sign it. They are NOT hiding that. And never hid the contracts. That's like calling a crime, such as extrortion, a scandal. It's not. It's simply breaking the law. >This could affect our computer chess business as well; it could become slow. If >Microsoft splits or collapses, we could not know where to go at that time. HUH? MS won't split. The appeals judge has said that. And COLLAPSE? Come on. In America, we don't let our #1 American compaines collapse because they made a few anti-trust violations. I don't know of any country that would. Look @ IBM. They were under the same gun, and they are fine now. Live and learn. MS is going NOWHERE. >However, I am optimistic that the period of technology crisis won't last >indefinitely. I am optimistic it will never come about. >Perhaps when the crisis is over, a new healthy competitive >technology business would flourish again. two or more new operating systems from >different new software companies would born. You're worse off than I thought. >This would give us great >opportunities to develop better chess programs running on new different >operating systems. Would that be exciting? Well, I think we need a big change >for better. Perhaps. But it will happen NOWAY like you say. > >Anyway, I envision that some author in the United States would write a book >titles "The Rise and Fall of Microsoft". There is a book called, "Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Family" ~ I am just hoping you didn't know that, or were trying to compare the two. > >Eran You're pretty delusional. Perhaps some of these things SHOULD happen. Not really my descion. But I will save you some wait: NONE OF THESE THINGS, STATED IN YOUR ORIGINAL POST, WILL EVER HAPPEN. Slate
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