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

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (43916)	4/29/2000 8:35:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

To All: And another liberal news source chimes in in favor of MSFT: Consumers: Breaking Up Is Wrong To Do Quick Survey Shows Support For Microsoft Customers Think Gov?t Should Stay Out Of It Others Disagree?Software Giant Was Too Big FREEHOLD, New Jersey CBS (CBS) Regardless of what they said at the Justice Department or at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, folks in a computer store parking lot were overwhelmingly opposed to a government plan to break up the software giant, Third Age Correspondent Fred Fishkin reports. "I don?t think they should be broken up at all," said one man. "I mean, the man had the intelligence to build a dynamo of a corporation. They should leave him alone." Some cite history for their opinion. "They shouldn't break it up, that?s for sure," opined another man, "because the same thing will happen with Microsoft as happened with AT&T." "Bad idea," said another man. "I just think it?s a bad idea. I worked for Western Electric until they broke up the Bell System. I thought it was a bad idea back then." "I always go back to what happened to the telephone system in this country when they broke up AT&T," said another man. "I can?t imagine in my foggiest dreams that this is going to be good for consumers," said Roger, a software developer. "What consumers want is ease of use, and that?s what Microsoft provides." But counters Neil, who also has a high-tech job, "Microsoft should be broken up?They?re an overbearing presence in the software industry." About three-quarters of the people interviewed outside the CompUSA in Freehold, New Jersey, sided with Bill Gates, who thought a break-up of Microsoft was a "radical" solution. But some agreed with the government. One woman said she supported a break-up because, "I think it?s been a monopoly and I think it?s probably a good thing for competition." Of course, not every average Joe or Jill can be objective when it comes to Microsoft. One woman said she opposed the break-up plan simply because she owns stock in the company.

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (43916)	4/29/2000 8:36:00 PM
From: KevRupert	Respond to of 74651

John, thanks for the article. eom

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (43916)	4/30/2000 2:12:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 74651

In the early days of film, the giant Hollywood studios controlled most every aspect of the business, deciding what movies were produced, who acted in them, and what local theaters got to show them. If a theater wanted to show Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's hit ``Gone With the Wind,'' it also had to show several other less impressive ``B'' movies. After 10 years of litigation, the Supreme Court decided in 1948 that studios could no longer own both production and distribution. Theaters were free to show what they wanted, and independent studios began cropping up, fueling the beginning of the modern movie era. That's interesting. I seem to remember reading that theaters that were wanting to show <some expected block-buster that I can't remember the name of> were told that they would also have to show this little movie no one expected much of called "Star Wars". This could only be an urban legend though.