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To: Duncan Baird who wrote ()	4/29/2000 8:06:00 AM
From: boris_a	Read Replies (1) of 1575622

MSFT and some observations from over the pond I'm pleased to watch how many people here are recognizing the importance of law and its application in order to grant FAIR business practice, even if their portfolio goes down somewhat. (BTW, I own some MSFT too. I'm disappointed. I've never seen a company acting more stupidly than this one under such circumstances. It's arrogance is merely unsupportable.) In these days of ever growing giant companies the danger of cheating the consumer is for sure getting bigger. So congrats to every country and government having a law and a administration to handle competition issues also in favour of the consumer and not only to protect the producer interest. (Patents, brands, intellectual property and so on). We just shouldn't forget: companies have big advantages by just the same law. You cannot write a PC OS and call it Windows. Why not? One can argue this would be of benefit to the consumer by getting more competition and better products. So at least Mr. Gates seems to like the protection by law. He just doesn't like his duties by law. This is surely human and understandable. But not acceptable. BTW, heaving heard the word communism: having a monopoly producer being able to charge prices not related to effective costs and to deliver a unified product to everyone having no other choice ..... that's the essential idea of a communistic production system, in my eyes. This being granted worldwide (yes, granted! that's the point) by a liberal economic order would be the climax of irony. Boris PS. I hear always the name of bad woman Janet Reno and never the name of judge Jackson. Wasn't he the one doing the finding of facts? Wasn't he the one deciding?

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