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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (31771)	11/5/1999 7:24:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

To All: Surprising it took this much time for this guy to rubber stamp the government's case. I guess the length of time was to create the aura that there was some real deliberation going on. AAPL comments "severely sabotaged NSCP" - of course MSFT had a $150,000,000 investment in AAPL which it had helped turn around. The quid pro quo re: Office for using IE5.0 seems reasonable. Comments re bundling of the browser with the O/S seem moot as this has been decided once before in MSFT's favor. Comments regarding Java were inane and judge seems to take a prescient view of what harm to the consumer might result. The judges final conclusion that certain elements harmed consumer on the basis that innovations and technologies didn't see the light of day was really a doozy - how does he prove that. That is like saying the teleportation of mass has been forestalled by MSFT. What are these innovations? Well who knows MSFT squashed them. This is a very circular "finding". Judges basis for harm is speculation and not based on current facts. Judge ignores dynamic of technology altogether. I hope MSFT goes to the mat at Appeals Court Press conference by MSFT at 7:30 JFD