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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

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Nov 19 3:59 PM EST

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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (34741)	11/24/1999 9:21:00 AM
From: Charles T. Russell	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Other than affecting shareholder value, what consequences are you really concerned about John? Surely you don't think that finding MS a Monopoly will stifle growth in the Computer Software market. I think it will have an opposite affect. Just recently, I've noticed a complete rebirth in small, do-it-yourself, cowboy techies. They've been pulling apart the LINUX operating system. Tinkering. Interfacing. It reminds me very much of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The industry was very new, and the technical cowboys had to innovate to stay alive. And... the innovations came very rapidly. The emergence of LINUX, the cowboys who care and feed it, the move to a 'Server/Service' based world and the convergence of portable appliance with telephony are very, very good for this industry. And very, very good for this economy. Microsoft declared a monopoly is white noise to anyone other than a MS shareholder.

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