Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!dsinc!cdin-1!fred From: fred@compu.com (Fred Rump) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Bill Gates, in memo, warns of attack and defeat by rivals Message-ID: <1991Jun21.125516.17774@compu.com> Date: 21 Jun 91 12:55:16 GMT References: <23720@shlump.lkg.dec.com> Organization: CompuData Inc. Lines: 16 vcl@mimas.UUCP (Victor C. Limary) writes: >MS-DOS). They're just out there to milk the consumers out of money, >IMHO. I'm glad they're failing. If I've offended anybody, tough. They're failing? I wouldn't mind failing like that any day now. I think MS goes where the money is. They have a good feel for the marketplace which IBM does not - despite it's minions of high priced analysts. IBM keeps trying to change the market, MS flows with it. You give the consumer (the little guy) what he wants and all is well. Fred -- Fred Rump | 'A little learning is a dangerous thing/Drink deep CompuData, Inc. | or taste not the Pierian spring' Alexander Pope 10501 Drummond Rd. | SCO Advanced Product Center Philadelphia, Pa. 19154| Internet: fred@COMPU.COM (215-824-3000)