Re: Not "Satanism;" realism.

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

--- From a message sent by stan johnson on 1/1/99 10:45 PM ---

>They tried, with the microchannel. That got them nowhere. If IBM   
>*had* successfully "protected their intellectual property" this list would   
>likely not exist, because very few people (clones not being available)   
>would be able to afford computers.  

I disagree. You might as well say nobody would be driving cars if only 
Ford could manufacture Fords. The IBM-PC is simply one _kind_ of computer 
architecture, it isn't the definition of a computer. The IBM mistake 
created the Microsoft monopoly. It's a real stretch to find cause to be 
grateful.

Mitch Stone
mstone@vc.net