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To: margie who wrote (46104)	6/7/2000 6:15:00 PM
From: Michael L. Voorhees	Read Replies (2) of 74651

"At some point, though, somebody has to hold up the Microsoft prosecution against the real world and ask what's really going on here." What's going on here is simple enforcement of existing antitrust law which prohibits predatory business practices (including tieing of products to gain access to other markets) in the PC Operating Systems market. Such actions harm consumers by restricting choice created by competition. It's rather obvious (in my opinion) that MSFT did such in that market. The remedies will make the split companies (in whole) greater than a single company. Maybe you need to start lobbying for the repeal of the antitrust laws. Your arguments (as well as many MSFT executives and lawyers) seem to be more targeted at the unfairness of the law not whether the law was broken or not. My opinion is the antitrust laws are much needed laws especially in the networked world. Just my humble opinions.

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