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COMPUTER INDUSTRY AND AUTO INDUSTRY COMPARED

April, 1999 - At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared
the computer industry with the auto industry and stated "If GM had kept up with
technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty five dollar cars
that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."

In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating (by Mr. Jack
Welch himself, the GM CEO):

"If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the
following characteristics:

1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally, your car would die on the freeway for no reason and you would
just accept this, restart and drive on.
4. Occassionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn, would cause your car to
shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT.".
But then you would have to buy more seats.
6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast
and twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.
7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a
single "general car default" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
10. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse
to let you in untill you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and
grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a delux set of Rand McNally
road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need them nor want them.
Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to
diminish by 50% or more.  Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation
by the Justice Department.
12. Everytime GM introduced a new model car buyers would have to learn how to drive
all over again because none of the controlls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You'd press the start button to shut off the engine."