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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scrapps who wrote (20612)	4/7/2000 1:51:00 PM
From: jhild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Its one thing to let the markets decide. It is quite another to permit coercive contracting practices. We have anti-trust laws for a good reason in this country. It is one of the checks and balances in the market. And it makes our markets strong by being a relief valve to over concentration of wealth and power that could result in harm to the markets. I find Bill Gates latest ad where he smugly looks in the camera and tries to say with his straightest face, that he has the interests of the consumers in mind to be both self-serving and quite frankly dishonest. I am certain that we will always disagree about MSFT even while basically agreeing about letting the market find it's own level. Anti-trust laws are there for a reason. You don't like them. I happen to think they serve a purpose. MSFT has been found to have willfully broken these laws and exercised unfair monopoly advantage. Btw, I might point out that monopolies are not about innovation. Look at the benefit the computer industry has received from limiting IBM in their consent decree. Look at the enormous competition in telecommunications that has taken place post-Baby-Bell split up. All the great profits we are enjoying in COMS is related to these burgeoning opportunities.