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

To: t2 who wrote (32622)	11/7/1999 2:38:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 74651

t2: These are definitely all options that I am sure MSFT can and is prepared to counter with. Missed Orin Hatch's reversal but that is a hopeful sign as he must now see that in the long run NOVL is a loser and he has paid his debt to Provo and Eric Schmidt, CEO. The ridiculous part of this thing that even if MSFT were to go along with all this break up crap and auctioning off their current O/S source code it would just be inviting the government in to the business. Who would oversee that there was no unfair collusion between MSFT O/S and MSFT Apps. The government and MSFT's competitors would forever be crying foul. It would be anything than "free to innovate". If they sold the code those that bought it would claim that it wasn't all there or they had been cheated by MSFT in some way and what are they going to do to prove that in 30,000,000 lines of code there wasn't some chicanery. Does MSFT want a bunch of rogue O/S's that are poorly maintained ruining their market tangentially? Piracy would accelerate and because of poor maintenance by these competitors the consumer indeed would be harmed. The remedies are more nonsensical than the conclusion that the consumer has been harmed and innovation has bee stifled. I say take it to the Appellate Court. JFD