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To: Brian Malloy who wrote (28611)	10/18/1999 12:10:00 PM
From: PJ Strifas	Read Replies (2) of 42771

I love it when people post these ridiculous claims that MSFT is being unfairly treated! You know what, it's about time MSFT got some attention and not the glowing cooing kind they get from Wall Street. Not that their stock doesn't deserve it - it's a great performer and I've jumped onto that bandwagon more than a couple of times but please - MSFT is in no way an "innocent babe" here. Just because a monopoly can claim that there is some competition out there someplace building a bigger and better mousetrap doesn't exclude MSFT from current anti-trust regulations. I'm sure AT&T could have said the same thing or Standard Oil! Wait....think about it - Standard Oil arguing that another type of fuel can and will be developed by someone, someplace that will make OIL a non-factor but until then we should be allowed to OWN every oil well! In a nutshell, this is MSFTs argument - someone will/can replace Windows but until then let us do whatever we want! I don't know the law that well but from what I understand, the future can hold that much weight in the decision on monopoly powers. Also, what will you do when the DOJ wins? Oh yeah...appeal. Kewl :) This is why MSFT is hoping to cut the DOJs budget - so they won't fight the appeal as vigorously. You know this whole Windows thing has been great for the computing industry. It has helped us in defining one platform as a standard which developers can applaud. Once something becomes a standard (by default or whatever) it needs to become open. Here's where the monopoly comes into play - we can't have one company own the entry point into a "standard" computing platform. Heck, MSFT built itself just to combat this very ideal in IBM's hold on mainframe computing. Peter J Strifas ps - anyone else see the shift coming? How we went from large mainframes and dumb terminals into PC Client/Server environments and now the beginnings for pools of servers (clusters) or even mainframes and an assortment of end-user devices (PDAs, PCs, WebTV, etc)? Seems like one nice big circle huh?

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