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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (16551)1/21/1998 10:39:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton  Read Replies (2) of 24154
 
Here you said, in present tense:

<Much has been said in the press of how the DOJ is arguing that the consumer is being harmed.>

Then you go on to change context and tense to the future:

<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.>

How do you and the DOJ know? Do ou have crystal balls? You shoudl realize how dynamic the industry is.

<You can't create competition out the ashes of the companies that got burned to death by MSFT.>

Which is why you enact anti-trust after</> the consumers have been harmed, not when your crystal ball says it may happen. Hasn't there been competition in the phone service arena after AT&T got busted up?
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