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

To: sandeep who wrote (45454)	5/26/2000 1:40:00 PM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Mirror Mirror On The Wall.... >>Jaros, it seems that you will be satisfied with publishing of the source code. I am not sure that Microsoft will disagree to that remedy today or ever did disagree with it. We don't what went on behind closed doors. If that's what is needed, why doesn't the DOJ demand that ? They want to destroy Microsoft. That is all...>> For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It's payback time. There's a massive coil of anger, hate and amidt the accumulated small and large injustices which Microsoft has pulled over the years. Heads I win, tails you lose. What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine. Riding two horses. Actions which elevated politics, power and money at the expense of principals. Chickens simply coming home to roost. The worst part about it is that Bill and Steve's actions are simply sealing MSFT's fate. The more they try to possess and fight this the more there will be an equal and opposite reaction which will confine them on the downward slope. Peace. GO!!

To: sandeep who wrote (45454)	5/26/2000 1:45:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

First of all, we pretty much do know what went on. I'm pretty sure that 'publish' remedy with probably a change to M$'s OEM contracts would have wrapped it up. --- Now, to achieve the same thing, we (as taxpayers) have to go through this giant 'break up' process. Why? Probably because M$ would have spun huge outrage at Janet Reno and the ATF coming in to confiscate M$'s "property". An outrageous and unprecedented act that any red blooded American could be convinced to oppose. At least a breakup has precedent. AT&T investors and consumers did well financially after such a 'break up'. That's it in a nutshell I think. -JCJ