I wrote 'Nuke Redmond'

This message makes good sense, but I do have a few embedded comments below. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: Wayne M. Smith <wmsmith(a)earthlink.net> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 9:43 PM Subject: Re: I wrote 'Nuke Redmond' I have to agree with this. What happens in the computer world, however, is that once a given OS becomes popular, it takes over the market, mainly because people can't exchange information, or at least couldn't back when this was happening, because the operating systems were not designed for that. Therefore, if I wanted sales, shipping, bookkeeping, and production to be automated in a common framework, they all had to have the same OS. The fact that PC network cards didn't support TCP/IP until late in the game meant that other network OS' had that share of the market until about the time Win95 became available. It's no coincidence, by the way, that this blessed event took place only a few months after the GOV decided to open the WWW to commercial interests. I'd really like a couple of examples of software companies with decent products that were put out of business as a direct result of Microsoft's adverse actions, with the exception, of course, of producing a vastly better product. If you simply look at what Apple did with their extremely (for all the wrong reasons) popular Mac, you'll see that they did all the bad stuff now being attributed to MS. When you're in business to make money, you go after your competitors any way you can. Apple did that with their "big-brother" commercials on TV. Their product, though "cute," was no more capable than an equivalently equipped PC, and cost over three times as much. They prevented everyone else from competing with them in the hardware and software arenas, and ultimately the price and availability of Mac products ran them out of the marketplace.