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To: rudedog who wrote (51930)	10/21/2000 12:39:44 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Anyone else would have settled with the DoJ/States. It shouldn't have gone to remedy. To blame the US for how far it all went is a little much. --- Microsoft and Michael Milken have much in common. Not the government and Michael Milken. --- The fact is MS decided that in addition to the law, previous consent decrees didn't apply to it. There was no place else for this thing to go. As a citizen (really straining to be objective), I'm pleased that govt wasn't able to be 'bought off' by MS. Of course, there may be an element of money and MS competitors, but heck, it's a popululist law applied in a populist context (larger money interest) by a populist administration and tried by a judge appointed by a conservative populist President. --- It's hard not to notice that there really wasn't much outrage about this Sherman Act until things went south for MS in court, and it's only MS equity (really) that's all up in arms over the findings. --- The DoJ spends the vast majority of it's time executing 'anti-trust' mitigation all year long with it's 'activism'. But, you're not complaining about that, are you rudedog? -JCJ

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