[Am-info] level the playing field

Erick Andrews eandrews@star.net
Fri, 07 Jan 2000 12:45:49 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 12:30:54 -0500, Paul Rickard wrote:

>lmettler@lamlaw.com
>
>>Whan Microsoft introduces evidence in court that over 100,000,000
>>attempts were made to get Communicator, I do not have any problem
>>deducting that lots of consumers do not want to be forced to buy the
>>Microsoft brand first.
>>
>>If you can not make that deduction, no one can help you.

Well, you can deduct me from the 100,000,000.  I deduce that that
would leave no more than 99,999,999.

>
>    Hmm.. One wonders how many of those were users of OSes without IE, 
>like Windows 3.X, Unix, Linux, Mac OS, OS/2..... You just assume they 
>were all Windows users because you see everything from a Windows-grounded 
>perspective. You also seem to have blindly accepted that 100 million 
>figure Microsoft handed out, knowing full well that there weren't even 
>that many people on the Internet at the time that 'count' was taken.
>
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