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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (31336)	4/26/2000 4:57:00 PM
From: JDN	Respond to of 64865

TO ALL: Remember how worried I was about the melee in Miami. Well everyone here simply MUST click on this URL. You'll see what I mean. JDN usatoday.com

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (31336)	4/26/2000 5:18:00 PM
From: Dale J.	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 64865

Cheryl, MSFT is not a Trust and they did not abuse their position. Just because a judge that was prone to rule against Microsoft told you so, doesn't make it so. If you have ever been falsely accused of crime, you know that a guilty verdict does not mean you did the crime, it does however provide a basis for action against you. Or in this case against Microsoft. It is true that where there is demand there will be competition to provide the supply. It is axiomatic. You don't need to read it somewhere. You say there is no competition, because you attribute Microsofts dominance to lack of competion. But in every product category there is severe competition. First MSFT had to beat out Apple. MSFT made it look easy, but actually it was quite an accomplishment. MSFT had to beat out IBM with OS/2. Some dismiss this, but it was actually another pivitol point for MSFT. I still don't know why IBM didn't give OS/2 away for 1 or 2 years. The PC companies would have jumped on it. What about Linux. Its free. What about MS Office? SUNW is building Staroffice and over 1 million have downloaded it for free. ORCL brags that 95% of the fortune 50 E-Commerce companies use oracle. As for the big Trust of old, yes Rockefeller control 90% of the oil and Carnegie controlled the steal industry. THese are vastly different industries and Roosevelt was right to break to up. Did Rockefeller sell 90% of the oil because his oil was the best? No. Does MSFT sell 90% of the O.S. because they are the best? 90% of the people implicitly answer yes when they buy Microsoft Windows. And yes, Ronald Reagan typically had disdain for the anti-trust laws, tariffs and quotas, and he held those views for good reason. My guess is RR would have seen Microsoft in a positive light and probably would have referred to msft as a great american company.