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Marin David Condic wrote:
> Hyman is absolutely right. How can you suggest that they got their 
> market dominance in any other way than being successful businessmen? Did 
> they get it by government fiat? There was a law passed that gave them 
> the total market? Communism came back and nobody noticed?

I said. Clever marketing divition. Microsoft started as a cheap Lada
(russian car not noticed for it's quality) of OS and one could buy this
in stead of the expensive Unixes. From there they have done everything
in their power to keep the market in their grasph. They have even
resortet to illegal actions.


-- 
�I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet.
 So who am I to judge.�
                 - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radioplay)