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To: RetiredNow who wrote (30462)	12/19/1999 4:41:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

If you had bothered to read the relevant posts, you might possibly have discovered that we were discussing NT which supposedly has 90% market share in a piece of a market. 90% is the magic number in antitrust law, because a long dead judge (Learned Hand) writing the definitive decision (Alcoa, 1945) said "90 per cent market share would certainly be evidence of monopoly" and he found Alcoa was a monopoly. He then went on to show that any monopoly that does anything (even setting prices) is automatically exploiting and abusing its monopoly status (which is why I call monopoly a "status offense"). As far as I know, this opinion has never been reversed (check your Shepherd) Unfortunately, Cisco (to my knowledge)does not have sufficient market share in any market that I know of to be considered a monopoly. I like to invest in monopolies that watch their step (Intel, rather than Microsoft). IMO you are a very childish person as well as being legally illiterate.