I wrote 'Nuke Redmond'

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Sat May 6 21:44:29 2000

>There's only one reason that MS has the market share they do, and it's quite
>simple: IBM. It works like this; 1)IBM comes up with the PC. 2)Asks MS to

MS has the market share it has by targeting competition and ruthless use of
its monopoly powers, seconded only by a long string of defective products
requiring expensive software updates that fueled a marketing warchest
unprecidented in human history. Paul Allen said it himself, "nobody ever
guessed the obscene profits possible from upgrades."

This is the sickest aspect of the whole computer industry, ALL of the
companies that made fairly good reliable products went under from the flood
of dollars the BAD heavily marketed software generated via updates.

Its a bleeping cynics playground.
Received on Sat May 06 2000 - 21:44:29 BST