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To: Duane L. Olson who wrote (32031)	11/6/1999 12:10:00 AM
From: Catcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

your post confuses me. you say you are a libertarian then say you support the need for msft to be curtailed (paraphrasing & i apologize if this is not what you intended) i thought libertarians dreamed of the day when the govt would step aside to let the people and private industry's good tendencies guide all to a better living. i see msft as being exemplary in this regard. it could be i have a mistaken notion of libertarianism

To: Duane L. Olson who wrote (32031)	11/6/1999 1:24:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

+Ed.. Must be a perception thing... I'm a Libertarian, and I sure don't see forcing MSFT to follow a few simple American rules of the game quite the same as having the people held hostage. If anyone has been held hostage is certainly has been more by MSFT than by the Govt in this matter... While you may be a "Libertarian", you certainly aren't a "libertarian". To be a "Libertarian" you just have to join a party. A libertarian would place the corrective actions of the free marketplace over the coercive action of the government. The market place was already correcting the situation, just as it did when DEC diminished IBM and then the PC diminished DEC. A column by Seymour at TheStreet.Com that was posted here earlier said this quite eloquently. libertarian.org "In the libertarian view, governments should be held to the same standards of right and wrong as individuals. As a result, libertarians believe that governments should not interfere with the interactions and exchanges of peaceful people."