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To: Joe NYC who wrote (101932)	4/4/2000 2:33:00 PM
From: SteveC	Read Replies (3) of 1570625

"Janet Reno and free enterprise: Janet Reno sent her troops to break up Microsoft - big bad monopoly. You can see the result in your RTQ." You guys are such fools. If the government hadn't come down hard on MSFT, what do think Intel would have done to AMD by now? AMD would be bankrupt (or a flash only company) if Intel felt no restraint whatsoever from the government. I suppose you would have been on the side of Standard Oil at the turn of the century. That would have been good, one oil company to gouge every consumer for 100 years. Or more recently, should AT&T have remained one company? The break up of AT&T has done wonders for the economy. Think of all the new wealth for shareholders that MCI and Sprint and baby bells have generated. One reason the internet has exploded in America is that we don't have the same phone systems as exist in most other countries. Where a monopolist phone company exists, everyone has to pay high access charges, unlike in the US where it is essentially part of your local phone bill service. You'd feel a lot different about logging onto the internet for hours if you were paying a $100 bill at the end of the month to the phone company.

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