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[Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au]

>> I don't know what the answer is, but one thing I do know is that
>> emulating
>> Microsoft is not it.

So how many of MS's flagship products are original anyway?

 - MS/DOS		- QDOS
 - Multiplan	- Visicalc
 - Excel		- ?
 - Word		- ?
 - Windows		- Xerox/Apple
 - WindowsNT	- DEC
 - Active Dir	- LDAP, Kerboros
 - IE			- Netscape
 - .NET		- Java and RPC

Antti