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

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (34448)	11/19/1999 11:26:00 PM
From: Brian Malloy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

I don't think that in the least. I don't think the mediation will work. The states and DOJ will never reach a unified position. Some of the 19 states will bring their own cases. It makes no sense to negotiate something that doesn't carry the rule of law.

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (34448)	11/20/1999 9:51:00 AM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 74651

CT: Your best post to date. I award you a C-.DOJ may not want to listen to Posner but rather they will be inclined to hear the opinion of Prof. Lessig as friend of the court (long time enemy of MSFT) and the deadlock will resume. The judge will then try and pull another rabbit out of the hat to try and prevent this thing from going to the Court of Appeals where they will chastise him for his one sided and heavy handed "findings of fact" which were in reality conclusions disguised as findings of fact. Indeed this thing has a long way to go but it appears that the investment community at this juncture sees the tide turning in favor of MSFT. As I said before the judge has blinked. Reason tends to outlive hysteria. JFD