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

To: KLP who wrote (40967)	4/4/2000 10:18:00 AM
From: Brian P.	Respond to of 74651

Sure Jefferson said that but balance the two quotations; I don't think he had in mind a kow-towing Justice Department that let a collossus like Microsoft arrogantly do whatever it pleases--THAT is not "free market competition"--all the apologists for MSFT don't want to fact the fact that MSFT has for years engaged in anti-competitive BULLYING. Someone here said "oh well, business is war, all's fair..." -- not in the U.S. of A. it's not-no Sir, business in the United States has to be held to a higher standard than the Mafia if we are to have the truly free market that so many here profess to love so dearly. There IS a role for the Federal government here as a referee on the playing field--you can't indiscriminately say that all Federal government action is bad, period--that doesn't wash for a serious argument. Some here see Justice as the big guy--it's quite the opposite--the amount of money Justice can spend on battling MSFT is puny compared to what MSFT can spend on their own lawyers. Thank goodness for the rule of law, that, as someone here said, Gates and Ballmer for the first time in a long while found themselves in the room with someone they couldn't bully.