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To: hoyasaxa who wrote (29943)	4/3/2000 5:39:00 PM
From: fuzzymath	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

It is indeed a sad day when people declare that Government bureaucrats are better suited to determine which companies will succeed than the marketplace.

To: hoyasaxa who wrote (29943)	4/3/2000 5:48:00 PM
From: SteveC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

"we are living in an age of awesome competition, growth, wealth creation and you view this as punishing a "monopoly"? " What world are you living in? Did Netscape or MSFT create the first browser for the masses that transformed our economy? Did Netscape or MSFT use its dominant position as the supplier of the OS for PCs to destroy the other? While the consumer may have benefited in the short run because MSFT gave its browser away for free, but in the long run we all suffer because MSFT quashed a company that had an innovative product that threatened its monopoly position in the sale of operating systems. Now we are largely stuck with Internet Explorer, and forced to pay whatever MSFT decides to charge for its OS. You call that innovation? Hoyasaxa, I thought a GU graduate would be smarter than that. Thank God Sun has successfully fought of MSFT in the server market.