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To: Paul Ma who wrote (108540)	5/1/2000 1:23:00 AM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1576401

paul_ma, re:<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.> The 50 Billion number is, of course, too big a fine. Something on the order of 1 quarter's earnings should be enought to make them think twice of repeating the same mistake as two separated companies. BTW, I don't think giving IBM a discount "per se" is illegal. IBM never got as good a discount as CPQ, DELL, etc., but they got it after IBM agreed to not compete with OS2 and some other aps I don't remember. As for DirectX 8, yes, if I were ATI or Matrox I'd be crying foul to DOJ. I think a monopoly, whether they got that way legally or illegally, has a responsibility to release info to all competitors. I doubt M$ has any thoughts of going into the graphics board business, but the collaboration with NVDA probably is designed to keep potential X-Box competitors out of the game market. Petz