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To: clochard who wrote (24685)	6/23/1999 12:21:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) of 74651

SS: The issue is whether MSFT is 1. a monopoly and 2. used that position to hurt the consumer through the erection of illegal and artificial barriers to their market. According to your missive DOJ can't even get past step one. Step 2. cannot be proved. The price of Windows is about the same as the equivalent MacO/S but you get a lot more for your money with MSFT's products. If you think MSFT is such a rip off by a Mac. Where do you see in fact that the consumer has been harmed rather than benefitted by MSFT's success? Therefore, the gov't. has no case. The overwhelming "evidence" that you talk about is the inflamed rhetoric of MSFT internal memos(let's bury them, let's cut of their air supply) and the accusation by MSFT's competitors who stand to gain in the courts what they couldn't achieve in the market place. There is very little in real evidence (if any at all) to show that illegal contracts had been entered into by any party.I know where you are coming from and I know who you voted for. JFD

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