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To: Duane L. Olson who wrote (32084)	11/6/1999 12:37:00 AM
From: Brian Malloy	Read Replies (5) of 74651

I guess we could argue all night about this but in technical terms the Judge has made no decision. If so what is it? Is he going to break up MSFT? Can MSFT appeal todays finding of facts, the answer is no. Now in Y2K when a decision is made if it goes that far then we can talk about all these other things. And in my opinion, MSFT has excellent grounds for appeal. Note the judge never says that MSFT is a monopoly. He states that "Microsoft enjoys monopoly power". People can write or say whatever they want but the government has never proven the lead premise. The old rules underwhich they try to persecute (and I do mean persecute) MSFT do not apply and the DOJ never went before the regulatory bodies in congress to define what a monopoly is for an information economy based company. The smoke stack industrial revolution based companies of what consitutes a monopoly do not exist with MSFT. Thus this nebulous Microsoft enjoys monopoly power statement and piling on of a few examples of what the judge considers monopolistic type behavior. If it gets to Appeal-MSFT will have more than enough to make the judge, DOJ and 19 states feel the agony of defeat.

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