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

To: nommedeguerre who wrote (37594)	2/10/2000 12:19:00 AM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Sigh, sometimes I don't know why I bother... >>If you cannot see the correlation between the mostly unregulated explosion in IT and the current state of the economy<< This statement is as empty as it gets So you believe that there is no correlation? A fairly lonely position, these days. And if you do see a correlation, focus on the word "current" (as in "up until now"). If the government gets away with destroying Microsoft, do you honestly think that will be the end of it? If you do, I've got some prime ocean front property in the Mohave desert for sale, cheap. And how fast will the industry (and the economy) continue to progress under Uncles heavy hand? the validity of your antitrust conspiracy arguments...the "Invisible Hand" conspiracy ...it takes a conspiracy nut ...you blame government conspiracy... Hmm, who seems to be the one with a "conspiracy" fixation? Do you think that attempting to paint me with terminology that I've never used alters any facts? Implying that libertarians are some kind of militia kooks, hiding under bushes and shooting at bogeymen and hallucinations is rather funny. Of the Fortune 500 how many are under litigation for antitrust? Don't know the number. Some recent cases (including FTC denials of mergers) include Visa/Mastercard, eBay, Staples/Office Max (or Depot, can't remember which), Exxon/Arco, to name a few off the top of my head. One prime coercive monopoly that should be looked at is the US Postal Service. LOL! How did IBM's antitrust suit prevent the development of the microprocessor or other real high-tech advancements which drive the IT industry today? Intel invented the microprocessor, and most of the advancements occurred outside the realm of big iron. And how much of Big Blues past lethargy was due to the years of anti-trust litigation (ultimately dismissed) and how much was due to their own conservative corporate culture is a matter of conjecture. Either way, they paid a price. As Xerox paid for tossing away the family jewels created at PARC. Microsoft, among others, benefited from IBMs slowness to react to changing conditions in IT. Conditions which are now changing at a much more rapid pace than they were back then. Gorillas who can't dance soon turn into monkeys. The market sees to that. There is no need for the DOJ to go on safari and shoot them. On the one hand, you blame private enterprise for the antitrust suit and on the other you blame government conspiracy. Ho Hum, wrong on both counts. Companies like SUNW, ORCL, AOL, etc., publicly applaud and support the suit (a fact that I find revolting). The DOJ and state AG's initiated it, from a number of different motivations. I blame the congress that wrote the unjust laws, the courts for failing to throw them on the trash heap where they belong, and the enforcement agencies for their arbitrary and politically suspect application of them. If you want to call that conspiracy, go right ahead.