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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (47578)3/2/2002 4:48:23 PM
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There is a difference. Microsoft has been found to have broken the law in a court of competent jurisdiction. Enron hasn't -- although it ultimately might.

I don't see that as a difference. It's by now well known that McNealy and others started their campaign to use the government against Microsoft long before there had been any verdicts, or trials, or indictments.

But I do see another difference. While there's not much question that both Microsoft and Enron management violated laws, Enron could well be found to have violated the laws against plain old fraud. Not much controversy about that body of law. But Microsoft violated antitrust laws, and even though its violations came in the form of undisguised extortion, it has still been difficult to determine who was harmed (apart from competitors) and what the remedy should be.

--QS
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