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

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (44232)	5/4/2000 11:58:00 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74651

>>Using an established monopoly to suppress new competition << Let's put this in perspective. One of the main culprits here are the OEMs. They could have said, "no" to MSFT's "predatory" practices but it appears that there was enough money in it for them that they never complained. The buck should really stop - at least partially -with the OEMs and their culpability at having gone along with the whole thing. If MSFT were so predatory, the OEMs could have installed OS/2 or whatever. They didn't do that though. Will the DOJ ever take the OEMs to task? No. As for the other players, take Scott McNealy; he's been selling overpriced garbage for years and no one has investigated that. Yet he has the temerity to complain when MSFT begins eating his lunch from below. Don't even get me started on NSCP... what a joke. MSFT would have self-destructed on their own. This "pig-piling" by all of these other businessmen - not through in-field competition but rather through the DOJ action - is a disgrace. At some point the OEMs should have said, "enough is enough" and pushed back on MSFT. At some point Sun should have lowered their prices in order to be competitive. At some point NSCP should have invented something MSFT couldn't easily duplicate the functionality of. NSCP didn't have the gonads to write their own OS. None of them had the spine for direct confrontation and instead in the end tried to use the government to accomplish their business goals. To everyone who backed this case: YOU'RE GOING TO REGRET THE DAY YOU EVER WENT AND WHINED TO THE DOJ. It might seem all fine and dandy to you today in your incompetence. Just wait until you have a bit of success and the DOJ comes after you... then I can say, "I told you so." Anyone who thinks the government has any business regulating high-tech is an idiot to begin with. Let's face it, the federal government only exists to punish and destroy. Today it is irrelevant outside of that narrow scope. I still think MSFT stock is going DOWN, with or without this DOJ action. Let's face it, through all of this, MSFT has lost its "dynamism." The brain drain and other problems will only increase from this point forward. Perhaps in the future, after the "rest-and-vest" crowd has been purged from within the company, they will make some kind of comeback. Good to see NOVL taking a nice kick in the teeth... couldn't have happened to a bigger bunch of pocket-protector-whiner-geeks. FWIW Andy (author of how to win friends and influence people)