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To: Insitu who wrote (44320)	5/4/2000 8:34:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (2) of 74651

Gerald--90% market share has always been a monopoly. 80% market share has been a monopoly almost every time. I must have phrased my question poorly, so I'll rephrase it. Where is the market share required to be considered a monopoly codified? If it's not codified then it requires a subjective ruling in a court of law, which by its very nature is in retrospect. Plus, you surely don't believe that "almost every time" is definitive, do you? Also, you skipped the second question. How can a company know how narrowly its market will be defined in a future anti-trust case? Additionally, will the judge in the future anti-trust case choose to measure the market share measured as a percentage of revenue or a percentage of units? A judge who chooses to define Microsoft's competition as only OS software for the same platform that can run Win95/Win98 will be much more likely to find Microsoft to have a monopoly than one who chooses to define Microsoft's competition as anything that can replace it, including Suns, Macs, Internet Appliances and Palm-type computers. Those last two are the real threat to Microsoft and yet they aren't even considered competition by this judge...

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