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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

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Nov 11 3:59 PM EST

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To: Thunder who wrote (46950)	6/18/2000 10:43:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) of 74651

Gary - great post. Whatever else you can say about MSFT top management, they are EXTREMELY pragmatic. If settlement was the most beneficial thing for the company and shareholders, I bet they would have been there in a heartbeat. The fact that they didn't, and the attitude displayed by both the DOJ and Judge Jackson after the close of the District Court trial, show that the intent of that action was to "teach Bill a lesson". The references to Japan after WWII were pretty chilling to me - one can only imagine the kind of rhetoric that was occurring in the "settlement talks". My sense is that MSFT management decided that there was no possibility of a settlement that would be better than even the worst case scenario going forward with the legal process. I am content to ride with that.

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