Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 13:48:39 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Samuel Lubell <lubell at cais.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Bill Gates, Boogieman
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 12:20 PM 4/4/02 -0500, you wrote:
>	The website offered by Mike is proof that some people have too much
>time on their hands and not enough fiber in their diet.  I'm sure that the
>mathmatics works out but the underlying assumptions are just wrong.  No one
>is forced to purchase Microsoft goods and services, and refering to
>Microsoft as a monopoly is inaccurate to say the least.  With respect to
>Mohandras Gandhi, quoted in the site, he had no concept of how a modern
>economy works.  His proposal for Indian economic development was 300 million
>cotton cloth spinning wheels.  Quoting Gandhi in opposition to British rule
>of India makes sense.  Quoting him in opposition to the boogieman of Bill
>Gates is like citing Ptolemy on why the Hubble Telescope can't work.
>

The last figure I saw had Microsoft controlling something like 93% of the
market for computer operating systems (I'm not sure if that counts
handhelds where they've had less success).  That spells monopoly to me.