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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (16485)	1/21/1998 10:19:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) of 24154

But the governments ultimate interests lies with the consumer, and not corporate competition. At the present, MSFT has significantly reduced the prices of browsers and servers while simultaneously increasing the functionality set. This is a good thing. When, and only when MSFT is directly responsible for harming the consumer (not when a small subset of techies percieve it may happen) will the government actually act in the consumers best interest to intervene. Where o where have you been, Reg? Much has been said in the press of how the DOJ is arguing that the consumer is being harmed. If competition is eliminated for browsers, then MSFT can effectively use this as a basis for monopolizing the Internet. By allowing for competition to have a fair chance, the DOJ will serve the customer by helping to ensure that innovation continues. If the DOJ waits until specific material harm can be shown, it will be too late to do anything. You can't create competition out the ashes of the companies that got burned to death by MSFT.

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