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To: Insitu who wrote (44254)	5/4/2000 12:55:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Gerald--It's not determined in hindsight. If MSFT had any advisor who had ever taken an antitrust course in law school, that advisor was telling them all along that the company had a monopoly in the operating system relevant market. WRONG. This is NO DEFINED LEGAL THRESHHOLD (aside from the trivial 100% case) where a company is considered a monopoly. This unarguably means that as long as a company has ANY competitors the only way it can be legally declared a monopoly is in retrospect in a court case, opinions of counsel notwithstanding. Only being legally declared a monopoly changes legal acts into illegal acts, and this is done retroactively. Competitors in the desktop OS market include but are not limited to BE OS, Linux, and Sun PC Solaris. Judge Jackson at least admits that Linux exists but says that it's not significant enough a threat.

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