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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (8254)	6/3/1998 6:46:00 PM
From: M31	Read Replies (3) of 74651

Dwight -- Re: You in fact are the one who pointed out to me just how large a company is SUNW sales-wise. Wrong again! You have me confused with someone else. I guess I just need to acknowledge that MSFT executives don't have a right to want to develop and sell new products, don't have a right to maintain existing ones, and certainly don't have a right to improve existing ones. Sure they do, but they don't have the right to abuse their dominant position in the software industry to keep everyone else from doing so. As Bob Dole said, Microsoft "may have earned that monopoly through legal, aggressive competition, but it cannot be allowed to violate antitrust laws ... by using that monopoly to then stifle competition, slow down innovation and leverage itself into monopolies in other markets." To which you replied (in an earlier post): As for Bob Dole's comments....nothing of substance there, just typical yada yada feel-good rhetoric. Nothing of substance?!?! Paul Maritz's comment in particular has me RFLOL. Bill Gates' comment is typically cheeky and confident. I don't see anything wrong with James Allchin's comment either. Yet another totally objective comment. Do you also think we should repeal antitrust law just for microsoft? Or are they above that? That leaves us with perplexing problem: Is Win98 just a patch for Win95, or is it a technological advancement? It's a patch specifically designed to cut off Netscape's air supply. M31

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