Author: KarinsDad
Date: 09:25:39 01/07/99
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On January 06, 1999 at 21:42:00, Richard Heldmann wrote: >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. Let them move. I was once in a group that got moved from the east coast to the west coast. Two thirds of the group stayed on the east coast (those with families for the most part) and the other third headed west. The group lost a lot of experience when that happened. I cannot believe that anyone would take a threat like that seriously from MS. It's another marketing ploy (but doesn't have many teeth in it's bite). > >>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. Actually, quite the opposite. If you allow someone else to have the originality and creativity, and then you purchase them (a win win situation for both parties, but a lose situation for the competitors of the purchased party, hence the hostility), you have demonstrated originality. You have just used a formula to get there. Well, way off the topic here. Time to stop beating that dead horse. KarinsDad :) > > >> >>Keep smiling :) > >To a fault. Life is too short ;-) > >Richard Heldmann
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