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To: Eugene Goodman who wrote (18690)	4/21/1998 6:23:00 PM
From: Justin Banks	of 24154

</lurk> The theory is important to the DOJ because they are breaking new ground. Microsoft does not have a controlling market share. s/does not have/has/; They do not hurt the consumer by charging high prices. s/do not hurt the consumer/stifle competition/g; s/charging high prices/bundling and unreasonable pricing/g; The DOJ law suit is based on what might happen if the government does not help. Microsoft will get a 70 % [isn't this what Netscape has now?] or higher market share, then they raise their prices and screw the helpless consumer. Since none of this is has happened, an economic theory is essential to predict the future. [Good luck. it will be a first] If the theory is flawed so is their law suit. IMO, MSFT is not so much guilty of screwing customers as they are of stifling competition. They provide products that some people apparently like. The real issue is not what products they bring to market, but what products they prevent from being brought to market, and what technology has never happened because it was a threat to MSFT. I've been too close to NT for anybody to tell me that it's robust technology. It's not. It's just better that the other stuff MSFT sells. Better stuff has existed in the past, some still exists today, and somebody will surely write more in the future. Whether or not true innovation and development can continue independent of MSFT should be a primary concern of the DOJ iff it can be shown that MSFT has a deleterious effect on such development. Of course, if they ask me, I'll say yes, but nobody seems to care much what the techies think. I'm still waiting for a judge to tell MSFT Okay, email the source to xxx@xxx.org and I'll accept their judgement as to whether or not it's integrated ;) -justinb <lurk>

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