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To: Eric Wells who wrote (102062)	4/24/2000 8:56:00 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) of 164684

Eric: To be effective, the breakup must cut to the heart of the matter -- not the tying or the untying of a browser or anything else I saw in your post. The issue is market power -- what happens when a company has too much of it, and what happens when that power is abused -- and what should be done to take away their market power. As for the "most popular" software argument -- by extension that would have made ATT the "most popular phone" company before its breakup -- a very amusing thought, but hardly a valid argument. The fact is, competition is good for IT. MSFT has systematically thwarted competition using its market power -- that is what the court found. As for the process of the breakup, MSFT would have been smart to do it themselves and avoid a flood of civil suits, damages, and having the courts decide their fate. MSFT shareholders should be fuming at MSFT management. Perhaps half the trouble here is that it is still seen as Gates company -- he can do want he wants and the interests of the shareholders be damned.

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