Most of the evidence provided by DOJ to support the case is just of no merit at all.
Example: DOJ used one of the internal e-mail by MSFT's executive as piece of evidence that Microsoft is a monopoly, ie. " We will cut the air supply of NSCP" ,
" Move Netscape out of the Win32 internet client arena" ...etc. Well, MSFT can cut the air supply of Netscape by offering a better product than navigator, MSFT can move Netscape out of the Win32 internet clinet arena by offering a better product than navigator, and Microsoft proved that on the winning of AOL contract, Microsoft
offered a product which is superior than Navigator in technology .
However , the DOJ wanted to give its own wishful explanation on MSFT's internal
e-mail. The explanation by DOJ on " We will cut the air supply of Netscape"...
is Microsoft is a monopoly. Well , if DOJ's wishful thinking is right, then all
big company had committed the antitrust law and are all criminals. When you compete in the business world , you always want to beat your competitors to death , so
there will always internal e-mails in the US big corps, that we will defeat that , we will beat this or that ...etc. If all these will count as a crime , then there will not be any innocent companies which did not commit the anti trust crime. I bet Netscape also wrote
internal memos or e-mails like this .
If these internal memos are the strongest evidence the DOJ can provide to support its suit, then I do not see any chance the DOJ can win this case at all. This show only shows to the world that the US DOJ is against free competition and nothing else. |
