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To: abbigail who wrote (37385)	2/3/2000 1:15:00 PM
From: Thunder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

To All: You can sign an online petition for the following: "Dear Mr. President: WHEREAS, the United States, home to 80 out of 100 of the most influential technology companies, is the global leader in technology because of a healthy and competitive marketplace that has operated free from government interference; and WHEREAS, the technology industry is critically important to the U.S. economy as demonstrated by it being responsible for 30 percent of the country?s economic growth over the last five years; and WHEREAS, unnecessary government regulation, litigation, and intervention in technology ? such as the Microsoft suit ? threatens our leadership, inhibits economic growth, and stifles innovation. THEREFORE, we the undersigned call on the President and other elected and appointed government officials at all levels to commit to preserving our technological leadership by not interfering in healthy and competitive markets and by limiting government regulation of technology." techleadership.org

To: abbigail who wrote (37385)	2/3/2000 4:03:00 PM
From: Frank Ellis Morris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I hear the drum beating louder and louder, and am anxiously awaiting the cymbals, bass drum and tympani roll, culminating in a massive reverberation 'round the world!<< They better do all of this with much more enthusiasm and gusto because there are too many whimps who do not like holding Microsoft into the day to day close. Nice to see MSFT up today and Rhat down for change!! Frank

To: abbigail who wrote (37385)	2/4/2000 3:24:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 74651

abbigail and All: Here is another drum beat: Friday February 4, 2:22 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Small Business Survival Committee Small Business Group Questions Conservatives Siding with Government in Microsoft Case WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Small Business Survival Committee (SBSC), a nonpartisan, nonprofit small business advocacy group with more than 50,000 members across the nation, criticized the arguments of those in the conservative community who are siding with the Justice Department in the Microsoft antitrust case. In his latest weekly cybercolumn on SBSC's website at www.sbsc.org, Chief Economist Raymond J. Keating explained that Microsoft was not in reality a monopoly. Regarding Judge Robert Bork's arguments and a recent report from the Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF), Keating noted that it was contradictory for supposedly free market individuals to support such over- regulation of a private enterprise, not to mention laying out ``methods for how the government should dissemble a business, and thereby hold formidable sway over the future of the computer industry.' Keating concluded: ``The ultimate sources of such apostasy by Bork and PFF are their embrace of antitrust law and their rejection of property rights. In reality, antitrust regulation allows the government to overrule decisions made by consumers in the marketplace. If consumers reward a business that serves their needs and demands best with considerable market share, why should government bureaucrats supplant such decision-making? Notions of predatory pricing and a true monopoly -- i.e., one seller facing no current or future threat of competition -- is nothing more than an economic fiction, without precedent in the real world.' Keating continued: ``As for property rights, why should the federal government be able to tell a private company, that gained its market share by serving consumers, how it should operate and be structured? From a true free- market perspective, the answer is simple: The government should not be allowed to do so, and such actions should be abhorrent to every fiber of free-market beings.' For more information and to read Keating's complete weekly cybercolumn, please visit SBSC's website JFD