Nader on Menace of Microsoft

[myturn@xxxxxxxx (John Gelles)]

Ralph Nader, writing in the MS owned Slate today, on the Menace
of Microsoft:

"For those who look into the future and are concerned,
there are some fundamental questions: What can be done?
What should be done? What will be done? Wherever
Microsoft goes today or tomorrow, it must not be allowed
too much control over something as important as the way
we communicate with one another."


	In Business Week they write of the German software
	giant SAP,  No.1 in enterprise software running on
	both mainframes and servers to clients (including PC's).
	SAP seems to be a formidable player, bigger than
	Microsoft in enterprise applications, bigger than
	Oracle or anyone else.

	I side with the Attorney General in her present action
	against MS.  But I do not see MS as having an easy
	future -- even if they win against the anti-trusters.

	Before MS opted to make the internet as high a
	priority as it is at present, they had promised to
	spend a lot on "user friendly" and ending "futzing".
	If any firm can do more in that direction, they get
	my endorsement, no matter how big they grow.

	Still, where firms engage in unfair competition the
	way I believe Microsoft will be proved to have done,
	fine them a million dollars a day until they stop!

		John Gelles