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To: JC Jaros who wrote (29601)	3/28/2000 2:20:00 PM
From: JDN	Respond to of 64865

Dear JC: Hey, you got a brainstorm there. Lets see, a good class action attorney attempts to get the courts to allow him to not only sue MSFT for refund of unused operating system, but also to coindict DELL, CPQ, HP and all the rest as co conspirators in joining in allowing MSFT to rip you off. Then, the is the anguish you faced in realizing you were taken. Then of course, since there was a conspiracy, you get them on the Racketeering laws and get what triple indemnity plus put a few in jail. Sounds good to me. When you are all done, only company left will be SUNW and we will RULE THE WORLD. See how active my mind gets when I am bored. JDN

To: JC Jaros who wrote (29601)	3/29/2000 2:06:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Please realize that you don't control the choice of Bosch for the alternator on your Mercedes. If you wish, you can buy a computer with no operating system at all. You just insist on buying from some PC packager who wants to offer windows to his customers. The PCer is not a monopoly and you are free to buy from anyone of hundreds. You are not being coerced by your supplier, nor is your supplier being coerced by MSFT. Under contemporary law, a software supplier can impose any conditions he wishes on its use (its only a license, after all), unless -- and this is a big unless -- he is a monopolist. The market involved must be defined. It is defined by economists (which I am) and TPJ ain't. He had his choice of hired guns. Economists will say anything you wish as long as you pay his fee. This doesn't mean the economist lies. It just means that the parties pick their economists by their previous opinions. MSFT hire economists who say "computers are computers" and there are dozens of operating systems, so MSFT is not a monopolist. DOJ hires much cheaper economists (not very good in my opinion) who say x86's are a single market (as if no one ever bought a MAC instead of Dell). This is simply a lie. That almost all of the PCers chose voluntarily to buy Windows with all of MSFT's baggage simply makes it a voluntary acceptance of the superior product. Don't you realize that Windows is copyrighted which is a legal monopoly granted by the government. The present Supreme Court will recognize this. I don't think Clinton will be able to change the Supreme Court enough to make it accept Democratic antitrust doctrine. As Deep Throat said "Follow the Money!" IMO the fix is already in.