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To: pagejack who wrote (32315)	11/6/1999 4:14:00 PM
From: Kevin Hay	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

<<412. Most harmful of all is the message that Microsoft?s actions have conveyed to every enterprise with the potential to innovate in the computer industry. Through its conduct toward Netscape, IBM, Compaq, Intel, and others, Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power and immense profits to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft?s core products. Microsoft?s past success in hurting such companies and stifling innovation deters investment in technologies and businesses that exhibit the potential to threaten Microsoft. The ultimate result is that some innovations that would truly benefit consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not coincide with Microsoft?s self-interest.>> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Amazing. Introducing a new concept: The 'theoretical fact' They've hurt consumers by stifling 'some innovations'.., unknown though they be. It reads as if Jackson just told netscape to 'write something up and I'll sign my name to it'. seattletimes.com

To: pagejack who wrote (32315)	11/6/1999 4:37:00 PM
From: Catcher	Respond to of 74651

dude the reason for the large volume of emotionally charged posts is that many recognize that its not about the money. sure it was expected and we held shares because we knew from monetary standpoint it is just a blip. the issue is the fact that the govt is overstepping its bounds--again

To: pagejack who wrote (32315)	11/7/1999 12:53:00 PM
From: RTev	Respond to of 74651

Yours is an excellent post. It's refreshing to see such a calm and rational response as I wade through these hundreds of posts. I agree that the long-term effect for shareholders will be either neutral (which is good) or positive. It was, as you point out, the facts of this case that made it so difficult for Microsoft. It didn't help that they were facing one of the country's best litigators in the court room with a legal team that made several dreadful mistakes in the court room. I once compared this situation for Microsoft to a Greek tragedy. The eventual result is inevitable. Everyone watching can see it coming except those closest to the hero of the story. His great pride and confidence -- the very qualities that made him successful in the past -- now make him blind to the tragedy he's playing out.