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To: Scrapps who wrote (20824)	5/27/2000 11:03:00 PM
From: jhild	Respond to of 22053

Hey what kind of a break do you want? You seek to provoke me by stirring it up, but don't want to hear what you provoke. I find your question a bit odd about identifying what good they did for us, their workers and their business partners. You ask it like they are a philanthropic endeavor. They found an opportunity, they seized it and they have been riding it for all it's worth - and it's been worth plenty. There was no magic to what they accomplished. IBM needed an OS for their computers. The CPM folks were slow in obliging and MSFT wasn't. They got the bid and they delivered and they have been riding it ever since. Just what part of any of this you think was inspired by MSFT vision I am a little perplexed to imagine. The issue with the justice department is a very real issue. It looks very much to me like they have engaged in coercive practices and used their monopoly leverage to expand and dominate in their application business. Since I don't see MSFT as the caretakers of any real interest in the consumer except however many dollars they can wring out of the process, I could care not a whit for what needs to be done to nurture MSFT. That particular notion is preposterous to me. If they are indeed divided into the baby Bills with a Micro OS and a Micro Apps then that should fairly succinctly put a stop to the kinds of business practices they have engaged in. Were I MSFT, I would not have been as coercive in my approach to desktop content nor allowed quite as intimate an advantage to the Apps group over their competitors. So I wouldn't expect to find myself in the position they are now. But knowing MSFT for what they appear to be and the way they have handled their affairs, I wouldn't expect them to change their stripes at this point. I think the government's solution is a sound approach. I don't think they can be expected to do anything but use whatever loopholes they can muster to subvert the very clear intent of what the government is trying to secure through the enforcement of anti-trust statutes. So let's bring out the scalpels and separate the parts.