MSFT -- Should the DOJ Break it up? Message Board

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Technology Stocks : MSFT -- Should the DOJ Break it up?

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To: ed who wrote (63)	5/9/1998 6:29:00 PM
From: Mike Robinson	Read Replies (1) of 144

None of the companies you cite has a MONOPOLY on their product. Big difference. If you have a monopoly, it is illegal to use the power of that monopoly to branch into other products. Question remains, does MSFT have a monopoly? On the home desktop, they have what amounts to a monopoly. But there are quite a few other operating systems out there (UNIX, OS/2, Mac, mainframes) so in my mind MSFT does not really have a monopoly. On another tangent, the gumint is woefully ill-prepared and slow-footed to keep up with the rapid pace of changes in technology. I think they just discovered there IS a company called Microsoft a few years ago.

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