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To: Paul Reuben who wrote (33923)	11/14/1999 11:13:00 AM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Just idle thinking on a Sunday morning ... A few posts back, it was stated that millions of people own Microsoft shares either directly, or through their pension, mutual funds, or insurance policy. If this is the case, anything that hurts Microsoft will also hurt these millions of people. I wonder if the average person who has a stake in Microsoft's success is aware of their position. I'm curious about the result of publishing a list of the pensions, mutual funds, and insurance companies who own Microsoft shares along with some graphics depicting the cost of this case to the average person. I once worked for a company who was trying to discourage their workers from joining a union. The company put a bag of groceries, a case of beer, a couple of fishing rods, and some T-shirts in a showcase with a sign above it saying "What your union dues would buy each month", driving home the cost of our pending decision. (The union countered with a picture of a boat and RV with the message "The unionized worker's driveway", but I digress.) I'm thinking that the average person (voter) is unaware about just how this stuff will affect them personally, and if they were, the people who need our votes before they can govern us, would see their own future tied to ours and act appropriately (selfishly) and become advocates of Microsoft's success instead of corporate scavengers. Cheers, PW.

To: Paul Reuben who wrote (33923)	11/14/1999 1:36:00 PM
From: ed	Respond to of 74651

So, the government is trying to destroy the window system which is now running on 90% of the PCs and which creat a system with uniformity , and which also made millions of Appl software can run on 90% of the PCs which use the same OS, and which also made the life of application program developers easier!! Now the government want to develop that uniformity, so we can not communicate anymore amoung PCs, because they run on different OS which are not compatible with each other . This is a big scale back in the Hi Tech Industry. So Microsoft should move overseas, let American consumers run various kinds of OSs to satisfy the government requirement, and the rest of the world run Window which enjoy uniformity across all PCs and other systems and which can communicate with each other.

To: Paul Reuben who wrote (33923)	11/14/1999 7:13:00 PM
From: Paul Reuben	Respond to of 74651

Militant Microsofties Bunker mentality evident as workers want firm to keep fighting antitrust suit sfgate.com

To: Paul Reuben who wrote (33923)	11/15/1999 4:55:00 AM
From: Alan Buckley	Respond to of 74651

Great article. Suggest anyone who didn't read it go back and take a look. The whole issue of remedy is going to be the undoing of the DOJ's "action". They're all either toothless or clearly more harmful to consumers than the existing situation. Most importantly, none of these are particularly scary from a shareholder's point of view. Here's a fabulous quote. Obviously it's never dawned on this clown that there's a good reason why things have naturally evolved to one dominant OS. "Ideally we'd know what we want by now, but we don't," said Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, who is coordinating the states' involvement in the case. "It's very difficult, because every remedy you look at has some advantages but also some significant disadvantages." Well duh, Tom. Maybe the millions of consumers who have voted with their wallets aren't as stupid as you have arrogantly chosen to believe.