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

To: Charles T. Russell who wrote (33609)	11/11/1999 2:44:00 AM
From: Duane L. Olson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Charles.. some excellent points. Sounds like a MINIMUM of Gov interjection into the tech affairs would be called for. There don't appear to be major problems in Microsoft (or a mini-Microsoft) having a monopoly. So if the OS, minus IE, were required to be a separate company, for example, wouldn't that take care of the matter?... So long as MSFT could not force contracts in restraint of trade, doesn't that take care of all the Sherman Act requirement? I suppose the fear would be that Microsoft would find a way around any agreement, given its history. But I don't see what the gain would be of a "slash and burn" operation by DoJ.. The possibility a more favorable political solution in 2001 is, I hope, a very faint one. Are you aware of any substantial Republican inclination to let MSFT off the hook on this one? tso