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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2259)	10/8/2000 6:26:05 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) of 12245

>>I hope you weren't mistaking me for a peasant sheep farmer in the Antipodes. I hope you weren't indulging some foolish collectivist fantasy that individuals are defined by the place they live.<< Maurice, of course I know you're not a sheep farmer. Actually I was referring to an earlier jibe of yours about America restricting sheep imports, the point being that we don't eat sheep anyway and New Zealand's most obvious export market seems to be the Mideast, which likes 'em and has the money to buy 'em. I hear that Australia ships sheep there by the shipload. And yes, my country does dumb things like the wool and mohair subsdiy program to insure a vital strategic stockpile of material for making WWI-style military uniforms. I am not a flag-waving patriot at all. As one who lives on the geographical periphery myself, I greatly appreciate the dawning of the internet and march toward world-wide democracy. My comments were strictly in the vein of trying to get your goat about this anti-trust thing. Microsoft has done many evil things, like holding merger talks with small companies as a pretext for stealing their technology. I have not followed this closely so I don't have the details, but this is the kind of thing that has created so much animosity. In my own father's case he successfully (and legally) met the competition by selling off an unprofitable sector and creating a new higher-margin business to service his industry. That's how anti-trust laws spur competition and innovation. Janet Reno is a hero.

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