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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread.

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To: Richard Belanger who wrote (1694)	5/8/2000 4:32:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 12233

Rich, Microsoft would be a logical contender for such a global sport as the America's Cup, being an American company and wanting the Supreme Court to defend their right to compete and take business away from others. The America's Cup is the pinnacle of capitalist competition. New Zealand is the champion [for now anyway - it seems odd given the socialist tendency of the majority of people in NZ - though the USA has as many if not more these days, what with the wimpish cringing of USA farmers in the face of the mighty New Zealand sheep meat merchants]. Will the Supreme Court allow Microsoft to leverage their monopoly profits from selling their various monopolistic products such as Encarta [no other company has that product], Office [again, that's a single product which nobody else can sell], Windows2000 [which is great and my puter has stopped crashing and runs better], into the ultimate capitalist monopoly = control of the America's Cup? Microsoft should perhaps be broken up into different companies with one of the companies trying to win the America's Cup and not allowed to have any other business? That seems to be the illogical and destructive thinking of the likes of Janet Reno, Joel Klein and Judge Jackson. Sun, AOL, Oracle and other companies share prices seem not to have been hurt too much by Microsoft's business. So what are they whining about? Hey! [to coin a phrase] Maybe New Zealand could bring a case under WTO rules and get Judge Jackson to rule that Microsoft and others are operating Trusts and we need anti-Trust rules applied. Those Trusts must be quite a blight on the USA given all the noise we hear about them. I wonder if QUALCOMM has a Trust to bust. Joel Klein's gravy train is rolling! Mqurice PS: I'm not sure that Black Magic can be bought? Some things are simply not for sale or go 'poof' if removed from their natural environment - a bit like trying to pin down one of those little quantum graviton thingies [slippery little suckers I can tell you]. Just when you think you have 'it', 'it' morphs outa there like a Will o' the Wisp.

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