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

To: Daniel W. Koehler who wrote (43649)	4/27/2000 2:13:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

The market has freely adjusted Microsoft's stock price, so everybody here must be happy with that, no?

To: Daniel W. Koehler who wrote (43649)	4/27/2000 2:31:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

<<We have the tort system to handle consumers and companies who have grievances against a particular company. >> Yes, and those consumers and companies would be easily beaten to submission by MSFT's army of lawyers. What you are saying is "might is right". Anyone who can hire the big guns can have free reign to stomp on the common man. No, that is why we have anti-trust laws and Microsoft is wrong and should be broken up. -Bill_H

To: Daniel W. Koehler who wrote (43649)	4/27/2000 3:33:00 PM
From: E. T.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

The public needs to be protected from the abuse of monopolistic power when it exists. In Canada we had a phone monopoly. One company operated the phones. That's changed, now there is competition and phone rates are down. MSFT is a monopoly, and they squeezed many firms to carry their product exclusively., That's not good for any market. In american or anywhere. "We have a tort system" Sure you do, but how does a small company fight MSFT when it chooses to abuse its monopoly position, it can't. It's naive to think that the tort system would work against a monopolistic giant like MSFT. That why MSFT was found guilty in the courts of abusing its monopoly position.