Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 08:32:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: T-Bone Prone <tbone-AT-Venus.mcs.com>
Subject: Re: Microsoft and Bill Gates 


I am glad to see someone exposing Wired as less than crucial; i happen 
to think it is utterly vacuous. I can't tell the ads from the articles, 
and i am not sure -they- make a distinction, either.

On Sat, 27 May 1995, Alan Sondheim wrote:

> 
> 
> 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:
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> > 
> > 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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