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

To: taxman who wrote (40523)	4/3/2000 12:50:00 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 74651

Reminds me of Kafka.

To: taxman who wrote (40523)	4/3/2000 2:36:00 AM
From: Larry Sullivan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

In the ny times post the following appeared... In the Valley, there was some relief that the settlement talks had collapsed. On Friday evening, some senior computer executives who were read a summary of a government proposal became alarmed that it was too limited and would prove difficult to enforce. McNealy and Steven Jobs, the chairman of Apple Computer, were read elements in the proposed settlement and expressed their dissatisfaction to some government officials. "What I heard was worse than weak," McNealy said. Another executive said the result "would have been a landslide for Microsoft." I thought these were secret negotiations Maybe this is the real story of how the rivals in Silicon Valley were giving the government feedback on what to accept. This whole thing stinks and is as corrupt as can be. Larry...