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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (109063)	5/2/2000 2:06:00 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576851

Dear Jim: The Attorney General from Wisconsin wants to breakup Microsoft because of its abusive tactics. I am from Wisconsin and here we do not put up with such tactics. We want government to be on the "Up and Up". We do not allow businesses using "Bait and Switch", "Dumping", "Tying", and make unsupportable claims in advertising. Many businesses have run afoul of our laws in this area. Things that may be alright in your eyes (you have a bias and so do I), are not in my eyes. Whether Microsoft is small or large, it does not matter. They broke the law, they will pay for it. Breaking up Microsoft does not pay $$$ to Wisconsin. It costs us (the taxpayers) money. But it is better than allowing any company or person to run roughshod over the laws that we all live by. There should not be laws, in my opinion that large companies can disregard where small companies (or you and I) must obey. The fact that it will cost Microsoft shareholders (including various institutional investors) money is irrelevant. If you think that government is sticking its nose into tech, remind yourself that Microsoft could have adhered more strongly to its promises and agreements and stayed within the laws thus, not causing the government to bring a case. The fact that they broke the law is obvious (whether, the law is good or not, is irrelevant (you could start something to change it)) (I happen not to like the way the law is written for UCC on software and DVDs). Pete