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To: Black-Scholes who wrote (17136)	6/15/1999 8:45:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 64865

So "downright stupid" Harvard grad and Stanford MBA McNealy, who also happens to have built a $10B company from the ground up (something I suspect few of us have done...have you?) and trained many of the CEO's in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, needs to go to Finance 101? He does compete; he's the one that built a company while having to compete every day with the likes of Apollo and HP and SGI and Microsoft and Intel and IBM etc. etc. IBM never crowned his garbage products king by accident. He didn't make it by bullying his partners into contracts that forbid them from talking to his competitors, or into paying him for his products even when they don't ship them. He built a company by selling good products in a highly competitive environment and being on the leading edge of change. I don't think it sounds stupid at all to tell the government to enforce the laws on the books, which is all he said he wanted. Anyone who doesn't like the laws can lobby their congressman. McNealy's outspoken stance against Microsoft's illegal tactics, far from being stupid, is a service to SUNW shareholders, and in fact to capitalism in general. How many computer and software company CEO's get canned after screwing their shareholders by playing ball with Bill G.? McNealy's still got his job and will have it for as long as he wants. Regards, --QwikSand

To: Black-Scholes who wrote (17136)	6/15/1999 8:56:00 PM
From: Michael L. Voorhees	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Black-Sholes: Capitalism involves proper constraints on a monopolist which have not been applied in MSFT's case. That is part of competition as well. Get your facts straight, sir, Mr. McNealy is simply expressing the requirments of regulated capitalism. It appears that you have a problem with the regulatory portion (which by the way is extremly important related to vigorous competition). By the way, I am not a shareholder either, but McNealy is right on the mark associated with the regulation of an obvious monopoly. You my friend are full of HOGWASH.