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

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (46375)	6/10/2000 8:34:00 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Reading your profile posts has been most enlightening...(there are just a couple of these noted below).... While I will rely on others who might put in their numbers, I will just remark that you, Mr. Middleton, Founder and CEO of NuoMedia...have just been brilliant in marketing your company, at least here on SI....! Message 12122561 Article includes this comment: The central point is this: The government's focus in this case has been to safeguard Microsoft's competitors rather than protect consumers -- which is, after all, the purpose of the antitrust laws. To be sure, the Justice Department tried mightily to link one objective to the other. But the government's own witness, M.I.T. professor Franklin Fisher, when asked whether consumers have been harmed by Microsoft, responded, "On balance, I'd think that the answer is no." Contrast that with Judge Jackson's assurance that Microsoft "harmed consumers in ways that are immediate and easily discernible." Even the Washington Post -- no fan of Microsoft -- conceded editorially that "the government's allegations of harm to consumers seem pretty speculative." It's time to dump this case. Lyndon Johnson hit the nail on the head: "You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered." ,/i> This one seems to stand alone, especially now.... Message 12557469 KLP