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

To: David Howe who wrote (43462)	4/25/2000 11:08:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

David, What planet are you on? You are wrong. The judge is twisting the law to suit his needs. During the appeals process it will be this very interpretation of the law that will be on trial. MSFT makes very clear that they believe the judge has errored in his ruling, his use of the law and his interpretation of precedence. Did you know that until the appeal process is complete, MSFT has not been shown to be a monopoly? Did you know that it is NOT illegal to be a monopoly. Did you know that it is NOT illegal to promote your product and to protect it from competition? Did you know that it is NOT illegal to integrate one product into another and did you know that the court has come to this conclusion? Did you know that it is NOT illegal to take measures to assure that your competitor does not take a majority of the market (ie. Netscape)? Did you also know that it is NOT illegal to discuss business practices that may potentially limit competition? Did you know that MSFT recently won an appeal where the appeals court actually removed the trial judge from the case because he had not remained impartial during the trial? Who here at any time said that being a monopoly is a crime? Are you actually saying that Ballmer is telling his employees that MSFT was accused wrongly simply because they were deemed a monopoly? WOW! Then Ballmer better re-read the charges! Almost all the other points are simply too goofy to respond to individually. You needs to read up on what the Anti-Trust laws are all about David before you blindly believe what Mr. Ballmer is tell you. Being a monopoly is not illegal (everyone knows that - aparently even you). What is illegal is that ONCE a company has been deemed a monopoly of a specific product or service, then they fall under specific and more restrictive business practice rules. It was several of these monopoly-classed rules that MSFT broke and quite obviously. MSFT used its monopoly in its PC OS platform to enter and dominate and unrelated product group (the internet browser software). Except for the MSFT Lemmings (like you) and the expectedly loyal MSFT employees, the vast majority of the industry saw quite clearly that MSFT used its monoploy to take over this browser market from Netscape. Without this OS monopoly, MSFT would never after taken over the Browser market. They did not take over Browser marketshare because they had a better product (of course I am very sure you might actually believe the opposite). As for the Judge twisting the law to suit his needs. Give your head a shake and ask yourself "Why would the Judge want to twist the law? What needs did Jackson have?" Are you willing to document exactly what you are accusing a Federal Judge of abusing his judicial powers? Come on David, stop the whining. Stop the grasping for straws. Stop lashing out at those that simply did their job of enforce the law. You and the other MSFT Lemmings that are lashing out blame on everyone but the actual guilty party that got you're share value in trouble in the first place - MSFT Execs! MSFT is simply ticked off that they finally got caught doing illegal business practices that made the company a lot of money. Its now time to pay the piper! I ahve been warning this board for 2 years that these days were coming. They all dimply couldnt see it. WAKE UP and stop telling me either obvious facts or irrelevent facts that do not pertain to MSFT's situation. Toy