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

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (34738)	11/24/1999 2:52:00 AM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

CT:I am not privy to the filings of MSFT briefs at the present stage of litigation although information such as this concerning past filings can be found at MSFT's web site and other sites on the web. However,if all the articles that I have tendered throughout the past 2 weeks (courtesy of supportive lurkers)and all the proMSFT posts published on this board plus the articles published in the free press in favor of MSFT (and the free enterprise system) have not convinced you that there has, to date, been a gross miscarriage of justice then you are of the same mindset as Mr. Klein, Judge Jackson and the gang of 19. What can be gleaned from this, therefore,is an appreciation of the gulf that exists between the DOJ(dba Jackson) and MSFT. Given this vast chasm between the 2 sides it will probably not be a surprise when the parties involved take this case to the next level. The differences between the parties are so fundamentally and diametrically opposed that Posner would indeed have to possess Solomon-like qualities to bring the parties to some out of court accord. This no trifle. The outcome of this trial will effect for some time the way business is conducted in the IT arena and will determine whether information and the facilitation of its dessemination is controlled by the market place or the government(as Mr. Case of AOL has proposed). The stakes,therefore, go far beyond the petty retribution sought by those who have been bested by MSFT on the field of commerce. This case will decide just how intrusive the government will become in the area of data commerce and to what extent the Bill of Rights will be abridged in matters of private property and perhaps even free speech. In view of this, CT, I am not surprised that we are miles apart - the principles and principals are as well and a lot is at stake. JFD