I wrote 'Nuke Redmond'

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_armigeron.com>
Date: Sun May 7 02:38:21 2000

It was thus said that the Great Wayne M. Smith once stated:
>
> > William Henry Gates, III was able to leverage any
> advantage he had, and he
> > did.
>
> Well leveraging, that's different. If you use your
> monopoly power in one market (such as OS) to exclude
> competition in another market (browser) then that's a
> no-no. Perhaps that's what Richard intended.

  It's been alleged (several times) that Microsoft has used their power over
the operating system to exclude competition in applications (MS-<operating
system> <version> isn't done until <competition application> doesn't run).
Several examples are MS-DOS/Lotus 1-2-3, Windows/DR-DOS, Windows/OS/2 and
Windows/Netscape. The most evidence I've ever seen has been the first,
MS-DOS (either 1.1 or 2.0) and Lotus 1-2-3.

  -spc (Leverage, use of monopolistic power, what's the difference? Even
        Scott McNealy of Sun has publically stated he covets the power
        Microsoft has.)
Received on Sun May 07 2000 - 02:38:21 BST