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To: Michael Ohlendorf who wrote (32442)	11/6/1999 8:11:00 PM
From: RockyBalboa	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

M.O, maybe you noticed that I'm also a European. But first: 1) I'm stunned by the growth of corporate America. There is little to compare with it, except some sectors in Europe, and maybe France which is growing at good pace. 2) Nowhere in the world the stock markets show that strenght and stability than "here". That said, I have deployed my investments out of Europe in April '98, when I appeared here. Look at the German Dax, at the NEMAX and the scummy part (the majority) of the "Neuer Markt". 3) Nowhere in the world the concept of shareholder == employee has developed external effects of comparable amount. Ie: A good company's employee, endowed with stock options is spreading the word, he is highly motivated to seek business and to talk up the company - the stock. I live in a country where employee participation is merely a cuss-word. The outcome is to see: zilch, abolutely nil stock performance, even if the company does well, as no external effects transfer positive company results into public stakeholders coffers (except dividends, lol). I believe that there is no need to blame the "Americans" as you state.

To: Michael Ohlendorf who wrote (32442)	11/6/1999 8:14:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

MO:Your understanding of the situation is slightly flawed. Most of the posters on this board are not too rich but that would be the view of the DOJ hacks. The problem rests in the anti-business posture of this regime. They seek to dismantle the not only our technology industry but the pharmaceuticals as well. I would not be surprised if these government types who have never owned or built anything don't go after INTC next. No mo this is all a matter of envy on the part of the political hacks in DC. JFD

To: Michael Ohlendorf who wrote (32442)	11/6/1999 8:14:00 PM
From: kami	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

michael, You are completely right! I sometimes feel I live in a third world country and government involves in free enterprise!! If there is any. This event, if it goes through against MSFT, will kill our software industry and door opens to european competitors. MSFT is American vital interest and I can not understand how and why government is seriousely after MSFT.. our strongest corporation. This is crazy and dangerous. Politics play with explosive fuel!

To: Michael Ohlendorf who wrote (32442)	11/6/1999 8:22:00 PM
From: Duane L. Olson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Michael, J'ai ameliore mon swing, and I do play golf. But it is the free enterprise system that gives the US all those wonderful benefits you cite. We COULD use the European model, I suppose, and PROTECT an abusive monopolist like Microsoft. Then we could achieve that nice LOW!! unemployment rate which is so widely enjoyed around Europe. No wonder so MANY people are RUSHING to sign up with those wonderful European companies!! Thank you for the wonderful instruction... Perhaps we can learn something over here and avoid getting so unnecessarily RICH! Que LASTIMA!! Kak Zhal!! Good luck with your Euro-model of Business! tso (Ach, du lieber!)

To: Michael Ohlendorf who wrote (32442)	11/6/1999 8:52:00 PM
From: LWolf	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Micheal... we are not all rich.... we do not want to stop the motor of this economy... Unfortunately, we have some people in high places that view our economy through 19th century glasses. The stupidity is not with the American people... but in the current judicial interpretations. But alas, that will be changed through the American rights of voting, and changes during the next year. Please be a little patient and hang in there with us!!! Our free enterprise economy will eventually supersede this fiasco. L

To: Michael Ohlendorf who wrote (32442)	11/6/1999 11:01:00 PM
From: Margarita	Respond to of 74651

Michael, We are not everybody in America rich and not everybody plays golf, in fact there is a lot of homelessness and some people live from paycheck to paycheck. As far as I know SUNW (Sun Microsystems) and the CEO Mc'Neally, has more market share in Europe than Linux does. Bill Gates used unethical business practices to become a monopoly and continued to use these practices to maintain his dominance. This sounds like high class mafia to me. By the way my husband LOVES Linux!

To: Michael Ohlendorf who wrote (32442)	11/7/1999 12:49:00 AM
From: Mick Mørmøny	Respond to of 74651

Mr. Michael Ohlendorf: You will be golfing soon with the world's richest man, if the report is true that Bill G. is planning to buy a golf club in Britain. And yes, we also read European tabloids. Analysts Think Judge Cornered Microsoft LONDON (Reuters) - British analysts shed no tears for Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and predicted he would have to sue for peace with the U.S. government after a federal judge found the company was an unfair monopoly. Business editors and market observers thought that the American whose wealth is ''more than that of Britain's 100 richest individuals added together,'' as one newspaper put it, would be forced to negotiate a settlement rather than risk the breakup of Microsoft. ''We suspect, and I think most people feel, that Microsoft will actually go for a settlement with the government ... to avoid being split up,'' Jason Nisse, editor of the Independent Sunday newspaper, told Sky television Saturday. Gates and his Microsoft Corp had been cornered, said technology analyst Simon Moores. ''Microsoft had been hoping to find some ambiguity in the judgement, but that doesn't seem to be there,'' Moores told the Observer newspaper. ''Gates needs to achieve a compromise quickly -- it looks very bad for Microsoft at the moment.'' Nisse noted Microsoft shares had fallen in reaction to the judgement in the United States Friday and ''could well fall further Monday ... Microsoft is in a very exposed position.'' The finding of fact issued by U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Friday said Microsoft had a monopoly in operating system software for personal computers and used its power to punish competitors and harm consumers. ''Microsoft Court Ruling Sees Gates Crash to Earth,'' was the headline in The Sunday Times early editions. But the paper also reported that Gates, through his involvement in the Destination Europe consortium, was in talks to buy a golf club in Britain. One analyst said the U.S. authorities should just sit back and let the market minimize Microsoft, arguing that its product Windows was looking increasingly archaic as an operating system, as did even the personal computer. ''Already the Internet is being delivered through the television and the telephone rather than the PC,'' Neil Bennett wrote in The Sunday Telegraph, adding that Microsoft's Internet products were ''surprisingly primitive.'' In any case, he said, the rest of the world should be glad of America's tradition of ''shackling'' its most powerful companies instead of nurturing them. ''There is a self-destruct gene at the heart of American free enterprise, and the rest of us should be thankful for it. ''Each time America spawns a truly world-class company, the country's politicians, regulators, and a sprinkling of unsuccessful competitors rise up, determined to put an end to such commercial success,'' Bennett said.