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

To: greedsgd_2000 who wrote (40279)	4/2/2000 7:04:00 PM
From: saukriver	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

"one judge will not destroy MSFT." Could not agree more. But 1 at the trial level, 3 on appeal, and 9 on certiorari might. Plus--and this was the point of my post on Res Judicata--many many other judges will now have a crack at the Redmond powerhouse. "Microsoft can manage any level of litigation" ROFLMAO!!! Microsoft couldn't even get the demonstration to work right at this one trial. What will it be like with hundreds of plaintiffs clamoring for Gates' deposition and coordinating information amongst themselves? "Would you consider CSCO a de facto monopoly? . . . Should CSCO be broken up? I personally do consider Cisco a de facto monopoly. What is your point? There is no law against being a monopoly. The law forbids monopolizing (i.e. conduct), like what MSFT has done for years. I am personally sad that MSFT has mismanaged this litigaton, is stuck litigating with the 19 hyena attorneys' general, and did not have the good sense to settle. I don't think MSFT's track record in this case augers well for its ability to manage hundreds of suits, turbocharged because the findings of fact will soon be res judicata ("the thing has already been decided"), and MSFT will not be able to re-litigate the findings reached in this trial.