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To: Bearded One who wrote (4095)	11/19/1997 8:19:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley	Read Replies (1) of 74651

This is hardly a classic "dumping" case, though. MSFT's browser entered the market at a price ($0) equal to that of a competitor with 70% (at the time) market share. Is it even a market when all the products are free? If so, MSFT could argue they added competition to a market that clearly lacked it. If what MSFT did is illegal, isn't every unsustainable airline price war also illegal? IMO that's the problem with all this anti-MSFT rhetoric. When it gets down to defining exactly what MSFT is doing that is (or should be) illegal things gets inconsistent and imprecise, and personal biases inevitably take over. While some believe there should be special laws designed just to screw MSFT, I can't agree. Assuming for a second that a law hindering market leaders is needed, it should at least apply (and be enforced) equally to all market leaders. I find it hard to believe the courts would disagree.

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