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To: banker's lady who wrote (23974)	6/10/1999 4:43:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I don't believe MSFT has the same type of "Monopoly" that Standard Oil Company did.. in fact, there ARE other operating systems besides Windows available should anyone WISH to buy them... There were also other oil companies at the time of the Standard breakup. It's just that they had become so dominant in that developing industry, that the other companies found it virtually impossible to compete with them. In a brief history I read recently of the Standard, I found it interesting that one of the arguments they used against the antitrust action was the "innovation card". Standard pointed out that they did more research than anyone else in the industry and had done more than anyone else to advance the state of the art. They apparently argued that the industry would fall into sorry decline without their leadership.