[CLUE-Talk] No, no, NO, no...well, yes

[Randy Arabie]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 jbrockmeier at earthlink.net wrote:

> If you haven't been following Gates testimony in the anti-trust trial,
> this might be of interest. After insisting that it would be impossible
> to deliver "modular" versions of Windows - and that it wouldn't be 
> beneficial anyway - he had to finally testify that it would, in fact,
> be possible and beneficial. 
> 
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=711&ncid=738&e=5&u=/usatoday/20020424/tc_usatoday/4054282

I can't beleive he admitted it...we all new it was so.

Favorite Quotes from the article:

1.  More broadly, Gates said making products removable would be so tough
    that he would not have his engineers try except, perhaps, ultimately
    to prove that it's impossible.

Do you think they would actuall try to make it work???

2.  Aside from technical hurdles, Gates said a modular Windows would
   ''fragment'' the system. Software developers could no longer rely on a
    stable set of features to run their applications.

What stable set of features??

3.  ''Today, you walk into a PC store, you look at a Compaq machine, an
    IBM machine. . . . You know what learning you have of Windows . . .
    will work for you.''

Yeah, right.  That is soooo much baloney. HA!

4. Gates conceded that slimmed-down Windows versions would bring value to
   the marketplace, but only because PC makers could pay lower prices for
   them while netting fees to promote rival products.

OF COURSE!  Competition in the marketplace is GOOD.  That is why we have 
anti-trust laws.
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Cheerio!

Randy

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