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Subject: Re: M$ goes Chess?!?

Author: Richard Heldmann

Date: 18:42:00 01/06/99

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Sorry for the off topic comments which follow:

>However, let me ask you a question. If Microsoft is so crummy, how come they are
>squeezing Novell out of the server market and Netscape out of the Internet
>market?

1. Good question.
2. It's called dumping.  Internet Explorer is free.

>
>Quite frankly, I cannot complain about Microsoft. They revolutionized an
>industry and there are millions of people employed world wide in that industry.
>And it has fed me and my family for almost 5 years. The computer organization
>that I worked for previous to that had better hardware and software than
>Microsoft and let itself stagnate into oblivion.
>

I am glad to hear that Mother M$ has been good to you.  However, I don't think a
company which lobbies to allow more programmers from 3rd world countries to
immigrate to the US, at lower wages compared to US programmers, is to be
admired.  AND then threatens to move to Canada, unless its demands are met.

>One other thing, you mention that they never start from the ground up and act
>like that is a bad thing. That is a good thing. Why start at the bottom when you
>can start near the top?

Good business sense I suppose, but demonstates a lack of originality.


>
>Keep smiling :)

To a fault. Life is too short ;-)

Richard Heldmann



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