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

To: Sowbug who wrote (31874)	11/5/1999 8:18:00 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Suppose that when he makes his conclusions of law and determines the penalty, the judge throws the book at Microsoft -- he breaks up the company into several different companies. Great! I was just a kid in the early 1980s when AT&T broke up, but I believe that T shareholders at the time received all the new companies' stock and eventually made a killing Don't forget that there is a large company that makes airplanes that was broken up by the trust busters. General Electric was born out of that antitrust case, and a few others.