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To: MDGO who wrote (47647)	4/22/2000 1:55:00 AM
From: ProDeath	Respond to of 99985

This is a jurisdiction issue - OPEC is a international cartel of sovereign nations, and last time I checked, such nations are not subject to U.S. law. On the bright side, cartels are subject to conditions that naturally cause their attempts at monopoly to fail with some regularity. Also on the bright side, open-source software is greatly reducing the cost of operating system software and offers much higher quality than Microsoft cares to provide.

To: MDGO who wrote (47647)	4/22/2000 12:02:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Respond to of 99985

1) If Opec were a company rather than a group of nations then the DOJ would probably have gone after them by now. 2) Microsoft has played differently from other corporations. Or maybe they just got caught. Either way, they did everything they were accused of. The trial showed them to be a bunch-o-liars with a brazenness that was frankly insulting to the court system. A company whos leaders cannot be counted on to tell the truth in court is no friend of the consumer. 3) In the short run, any anti-trust action can have a temporary price increase. Over the long term, the benefits of this lawsuit have already become apparent. Or do you really think that Palm and Sun wouldn't have suffered Netscape's fate hadn't the DOJ been all over Microsoft these past few years?