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

To: Thunder who wrote (40979)	4/4/2000 4:06:00 AM
From: Merlo	Respond to of 74651

This should be a wake up call to the electorate. How true. Never in my life have I been so worried about our nation. When major high crimes and treason are brushed off as technicalities. We are in trouble.

To: Thunder who wrote (40979)	4/4/2000 4:58:00 AM
From: techguerrilla	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

A wakeup call to the electorate? In what respect? Blatant abuse of monopoly power is to be respected? Microsoft has been a gorilla that has sat wherever it has pleased and crushed freedom every step of its way. Its divesture is merited in the name of freedom. Don't confuse its technical progress for advancing freedom. It has held back progress that would have been advanced at numerous stages of its corporate history. Microsoft will be divested in the name of freedom. The electorate has no interest in advancing Microsoft's agenda. None whatsoever. The antitrust laws have been one of the crowning glories of American history. They stopped the abuses of the Rockefellers and now they will stop the abuses of Microsoft. Each serious implementation of the antitrust laws has advanced competition and freedom. The post-AT&T breakup years have brought tremendous competition and freedom to the marketplace. So will the post-Microsoft breakup years. This is not a liberal vs. conservative/Democrat vs. Republican issue. There is no electorate stampede for overhauling the antitrust laws. Their gradual pullback in the last 20 years has been carefully constructed. The abuses of Microsoft would be seen as abuses regardless of the nature of the administration in power. Microsoft's abuses are the most aggregious in American history.