Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 01:13:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: Microsoft and Bill Gates 




I think that this increasing monopolization/integration of services 
vis-a-vis Microsoft will lead ultimately to increasing regulation as 
well. There is also a rumor (more than that I think) that NYNEX here in 
New York will start offering free SLIP Internet connections to its 
customers - this as a way of totalizing the business again (supposed to 
happen by the end of the 3rd/begining of 4th quarter). The smaller 
servers will be driven out of business, of course, and if Gates etc. has 
his way, the Internet will develop a "look" that is already becoming 
increasingly corporate. 

Gates is like WIRED itself: dissembling, carrying vestiges of 60s 70s 
leftism, but ultimately foreclosing any possibility of radicality. And I 
don't think that either Gates or WIRED may be aware of their tunnel 
vision, and the fact that this results in tunnels being built for all of us.

Alan

On Fri, 26 May 1995 glevy-AT-acnet.pratt.edu wrote:

> 
> Did anybody see the NBC special tonight called "Tycoon" profiling Bill 
> Gates and Microsoft?  It raised some possible issues for us to discuss, 
> such as, competition in the software market, new product development in 
> personal computers, and the state's role in developing the "information 
> superhighway" and anti-trust legislation.  How will these developments 
> affect capital accumulation, market structure and workers?  
> 
> 
> 
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