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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (45329)	5/25/2000 12:51:00 PM
From: david_si	Read Replies (1) of 74651

"the consumer has been harmed by inferior product quality at a price that is artificially high." Inferior product quality is no crime. With that logic, I am arguably more harmed by Netscape than Microsoft. For years, Microsoft has added features and functionality to their software without raising prices, or raising them very modestly. It costs billions of dollars to produce this stuff. Some of it (like IE) they give to you for free. Apple charges similar prices for their OS, and Novell for their network OS. You'd have to spend thousands more to get an Oracle database instead of SQL Server 7. If you think it's too high, don't buy it, or buy it from someone else. Insitu: "The stockholders and employees of a competing company that is driven out of business would care, wouldn't they?" It is capitalism and the American way to compete against your competition. You can still download Netscape today. You can choose Linux or FreeBSD or Be or Apple for your OS. It isn't illegal for Microsoft to have a more desired product. Where's the illegality in putting companies out of business. Antitrust laws don't cover that.

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