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To: taxman who wrote (29744)	9/19/1999 12:46:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 74651

The judge could turn to Warden and say, ``Tell me again why you don't have monopoly power. The government says you do. Explain to me why they are wrong,' Kovacic said. To which Warden would say that even if they did have quasi monopoly power they have not abused it and the consumer has not been damaged and can point to the Mac as an example of how competing systems are more expensive. As far as browsers are concerned the writer of the article correctly points out that MSFT's dominant position is aided and abetted primarily by the owner of the competing browser. Where does the DOJ go with that one. Jackson is still looking up a dead horses butt hoping for na out of court settlement to bail him out. He is either going to have to give up his apparent anti-MSFT stance and slap them on the wrist for competing to harshly or be overturned with a certainty in Appeals Court. JFD