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To: JC Jaros who wrote (29582)	3/28/2000 8:23:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) of 64865

Sorry, buddy, but I have read the entire findings of fact (sic). You realize the judge decreed that the market for x86 desktops was the industry that MSFT had monopolized, as if there were no Linux, Solaris, BEOS, DrDos, or any other OS for x86 or any other desktop microprocessor. You realize, of course, that every x86 owner had alternatives to Windows, but that they were just too dumb or lazy to use them. I have no interest in holding MSFT (except for a few sudden profitable trades to play the antitrust movements of the stock) because I think it is badly overpriced (like many other techs) but has no real franchise. The reason I expect the case to be booted if Bush takes over is because I followed the IBM case very closely until it was ditched by Reagan's DOJ. For a period I got express packages of the daily proceedings. They had IBM dead to rights and let them go because it simply got unmanageable. If MSFT had demanded a jury trial there would have been no findings of fact by now. They would still be teaching the jury antitrust economics. Unfortunately for them, they never had the chance to teach Jackson antitrust economics. Read his findings of fact if you want to challenge that statement.

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