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To: ed who wrote (10574)	9/8/1998 8:51:00 AM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Getting back to the facts / questions you just brought up (I can filter out the insults between your points)... We are talking about the point you brought up in the first place and that is: if a law is broken so many times then its likely an outdated law. Based on this argument, I put it into another perspective which is just as relevent to your argument. If so many businesses / people break the laws of the country - acording to you and Krnjeu - then the laws must not be outdated and removed or revised. Well that law can pertain to personal as well as business Mr. Ed. In other words, if people murder people all the time or speed all the time and break the law - then your logic is that the law must not be valid anymore. Of course, this is not the case! As for Legislators - maybe you might want to read up on what their role is. Their main job is to create new laws and amend old laws. And before you begin to type "Gotch Ya" - amending old laws usually means to the tougher or more stringent - not to abolish them. Let me ask you a very simple question. Do you actual believe that the Sherman Anti-Trust laws serve no purpose in the business world? These anti-trust laws are a valid today as they were the day they were written. A monopoly is a monopoly - the tactics on how a company like MSFT abuses their monopoly might change but the basis and reason for the law is still valid. In fact - I believe that the Anti-trust laws should be more stringent and better defined as that companies like MSFT can't pick holes through them with silly arguments like "Exactly what is a monopoly". As for what is a monopoly. There is no question that MSFT has a monopoly of the Intel computer based Operating Systems. If you can mutate this somehow to say that is not true then I think I know what your profession is - you must be a defense lawyer! I believe MSFT's monopoly in this area is about 94% last I heard. From what I remember, a monopoly is when a company holds more than 84% of the marketshare of a specific product or service area. So dont start this stupid "What exactly is a Monopoly" garbage. MSFT's DOS/WinX/Win9X Operating Systems is a monopoly! Plain and Simple - the way you like it. What caused the monopoly, well there is a current court case going on right now against MSFT initiated by Caldera who currently owns DR-DOS that has one clear idea what caused the monoploy - MSFT's early abuse of Anti-Trust type activities when their Marketshare was only a bit lower. If you want to go further back as to what caused the monopoly - it was more a matter of good luck - good timing - and partnership with a big & stupid bed partner at the time (IBM). It had very little to do with product superiority Mr. Ed. So dont get on your horse and tout that MSFT has a monopoly because of superior technology - it had very little to do with that. Dont get into a pissing contest with me on the history of MSFT's clear monopoly and the how poor little MSFT is being picked on by the bad old Government. They have consistently broken the anti-trust laws and it was only a matter of time before the Government HAD TO STEP IN! Finally, if you or some of the other Pro-MSFTers take offense at the MSFT negative points I have to say, do you really think I care. I only am more offensive to people that make dumb MSFT defending comments like you and Krnjeu just brought up this weekend. Its not as if a person on this board who is not a Pro-MSFTer gets any respect on here anyways. So I really dont care what level of respect to provide me - now do I. Cheers Toy

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