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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (45714)	5/31/2000 12:59:00 PM
From: TTOSBT	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

A robber who has a product and majority of satisfied willing REPEAT customers who hand their money over to him most of the time? but must force a few to cough up by force! The DOJ's case is not about robbery! It about high level jealousy and power hungry moguls -including Bill Gates who just happened to be suffering the fate of the top one. Unfortunately we the consumers and investors are being used, exploited and cheated of our rights by the very people who we elect to protect them IMO. TTOSBT

To: TigerPaw who wrote (45714)	5/31/2000 3:42:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

TP - I followed the trial pretty closely, and I did not see any evidence of any coercive contracts, or other pressure, brought to bear to "force" customers to buy MSFT products. Even the questionable contracts were in the form of incentives, which the customer could choose to engage in or not. There has been a lot of discussion on this thread about coercive MSFT practices but no evidence, and none in the extensive work by the DOJ either. Do you have personal experience to support your ideas?