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To: MeDroogies who wrote (7637)	6/24/1998 1:23:00 PM
From: lml	Read Replies (1) of 19080

"98 is "good" for the consumer" According to Gates, yesterday's appellate court ruling was "primarily good for the consumer." Whoever believes the BS spooing from his mouth is a complete fool. The primary beneficiary of yesterday's ruling was MSFT, not the consumer. Whenever he uses the word "customer" or "consumer", replace it with "me" or "MSFT shareholders." Bill Gates has never snowed me; he just over the years has made it more difficult to choose an competing product, particularly a desktop application. First it was Word rather than WordPerfect, then it was Excel rather than Lotus 1-2-3. I been hanging on to Netscape, but I could yield to IE any month now. Sure, the consumer is getting more functionality (w/ the MS OS), but at what cost in the long term. Obviously, the 3 justices handing down yesterday's decision still fail to understand the uniqueness of today's technology within the ambit of existing anti-trust laws. Yesterday gave MSFT another opportunity to toot its horn to the public, but I think the real test will be in September.

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