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Nov 28 9:30 AM EST

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To: blankmind who wrote (36309)	1/12/2000 12:17:00 AM
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"- The DOJ case is even more absurd b/c the anti-trust laws are to protect consumers; not other businesses. This was spelled out some months ago in the Wall Street Journal - Given Jackson's ruling that no harm has yet come to consumers, then it doesn't even make sense to rule against MSFT, let alone have brought the case this far - Can't wait for Nov '2000 to vote all those stinkin, lousy Democrats out of office. I couldn't agree with you more on this one blankmind. It seems to me that this unjust case is hamstringing MSFT somewhat. "It would be very difficult for Microsoft to respond in kind, because of the controversy they have around them," said Mitchell Kertzman, chief executive officer of Liberate Technologies, which competes with Microsoft in interactive-TV software. "It might increase Microsoft's desire to resolve those issues so they could know for sure what the future looks like." Still, AOL's record-breaking acquisition may well quicken Microsoft's already frenetic pace of deal-making. For example, the company has held intermittent talks with Excite At Home Corp., a high-speed Internet-access provider controlled by AT&T, and with Yahoo! Inc., the leading Web portal." dowjones.wsj.com

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