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To: rudedog who wrote (44373)	5/5/2000 4:52:00 PM
From: Michael L. Voorhees	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

"... how should a company behave to protect itself from a future definition of its market?" Being a monopoly is not illegal, using that monopoly in an illegal matter, as outlined by the Sherman Antitrust Law, is illegal. Is it really that difficult to understand?

To: rudedog who wrote (44373)	5/5/2000 4:55:00 PM
From: Michael L. Voorhees	Respond to of 74651

To: rudedog who wrote (44373)	5/5/2000 7:15:00 PM
From: Insitu	Respond to of 74651

Rudedog--Here is one area where I disagree with the judge. I think the "relevant market" should have been operating systems for all PC's, and I don't mean just IBM compatible. I would have included Macs as well, and OS/2 if that is still around. But it is still a monopoly. At some point before 1990 or so, Apple diminished in importance and OS/2 never took off and Windows/DOS ruled the PC operating system world. Apple doesn't have a monopoly by any definition that makes sense to me As for Cisco, I don't know the market that well. I think Lucent has a big presence in a lot of their markets and 3Com, Nortel/Bay Networks and Cabletron do or did in others. Maybe others know this better than me.