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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 492.34+1.4%11:08 AM EST
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To: Teflon who wrote (16525)2/19/1999 5:40:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd  Read Replies (1) of 74651
 
Boise has not proven the case. Oh yes he pointed out the technical flaws in the videos and used internal eMails to show what various people were musing within MSFT but from where I see it he proved no harm to the consumer, in fact thanks to the AOL/NSCP merger he was unable to prove any injury there. As for the contracts MSFT entered into with various other parties he did not point out anything that would indicate that MSFT was restraining trade. In all cases the hardware manufacturer was always allowed to load whatever software they desired but they could not tamper with the MSFT OS.

Graet grist for the tecno-tabloids but no violation of the consumer and the matter of tying has already been addressed in a prior overturning of the same Judge Jackson's earlier and erroneous decision. It is not the job of the DOJ to interfere in the market place to divide up markets. When all the noise is removed from this case there is no case.

I do agree that MSFT's lawyers were not as prepared for the infighting but they were focused on the principal of the case not the peripheral details. Their lack of attention here provided for some embarrassing moments but these gov't "victories" were pyric and not substantive.

JFD
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