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To: Petz who wrote (108496)	4/29/2000 3:32:00 AM
From: Dinesh	Respond to of 1579913

Petz: Re Unfair Advantage: Some call it business synergy. Should IBM be forced to open its code to Computer Associates or BMC or Fujitsu or EMC ? Re Tieing: Why does many a times a one-way airfare cost more than a round-trip ? Why isn't a comsumer allowed to buy 2 overlapping roundtrip fares to beat a weekend stay clause ? Even on two different airlines ? It's like, if you bought an icecream you have to eat it. Re Lies: Ah, everything is fair game in politics and in powergrab. Clinton administration understands. Regards Dinesh

To: Petz who wrote (108496)	4/29/2000 1:40:00 PM
From: Paul Ma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579913

John, I did not know Microsoft was going to sell windows at a discount to IBM. That is a direct violation of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914. I now must agree that they broke the law. However I still do not agree on the punishment. A huge fine would cripple the company. Perhaps setting a reasonable price ceiling to its software prices is one thing. Also, your comment on the game developer thing has little merit. Do you think 3dfx and ATI and Matrox are happy that Nvidia is co writing Directx8 with Microsoft? Nvidia will become the graphics chip monopoly in 1-2 years. Paul Ma

To: Petz who wrote (108496)	4/30/2000 12:26:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1579913

RE:"It would be totally unfair if Microsoft was just forced to split in two. There should also be a $50B fine and Bill Gates and others should be banned from the industry" You must be either all in cash looking to pick shares after the NASDAQ falls to 1000...or short everything.<G> Jim

To: Petz who wrote (108496)	5/1/2000 6:27:00 AM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 1579913

RE: "Read the stuff in the register. Microsoft lied repeatedly under oath. They made a deal with IBM to discount Windows to them if IBM would walk away from OS2. The list goes on and on." ---------- John, That is not true. MS needed to solve the software piracy issue (which is still about a $30B industry). OEMs aren't motivated to solve piracy - why would they want to solve software piracy? Allowing and enabling piracy helped their goals, not the software industry's goals. When you read the FOFs, you will learn: MS presented a solution to the OEMs that gave any OEM a discount if they carried ANY operating system software in order to combat software piracy. It was IBM's own decision to not carry their own OS2 operating system on their own PCs. Do not blame this on Microsoft. This was IBM's own decision. Amy J