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

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (46462)	6/12/2000 10:46:00 AM
From: BBG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

John... I appreciate your point of view but have to disagree... I feel like MSFT has acted childishly and taken the whole thing way too personally... While it might give Bill great satisfaction to go tit for tat with the DOJ and "prove" he is right (we all know he will never convince them so what's the point?)... His belligerent, aggressive methods don't help his (our) case one bit... IMO it does just the opposite... I think MSFT's "macho" attitude has drowned out the merits of their case... To me the best satisfaction would have been to been a little more sophisticated and mature and just a little "sly" and not let this thing get to this point... As for Cramer, as he said... He is long the stock and is just telling it the way he sees it and is frustrated at MSFT's childish, ill advised and just plain dumb "strategy" that apparently involves faning the flames everytime things start to quiet down... Regards BBG

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (46462)	6/12/2000 12:18:00 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

JFD, Several posts here today bear witness to the increasing crescendo of "impartial" observers urging Bill G and MSFT to back down, admit they harmed consumers, kiss the DOJs behind, and acquiesce to the controllers and regulators of the free market. Headline news story today is the DOJ going after Visa/MasterCard as their latest effort to "protect" consumers from the evil capitalists. This morning I turned on my Windows PC, opened Internet Explorer, went to a website where I ordered a book, and paid for it with a no annual fee credit card with a 25 day interest free grace period for payment in full, and that also guarentees complete coverage in the unlikely event that the card number is stolen online. Click, enter, and the book will arrive at my house in a day or two and I will have at least a month to pay for it without interest or penalty. Consider my alternative if these "exploiters of consumers" didn't exist. I would have to get in the car, drive to the bank and withdraw cash from my interest bearing account, and since I live in a rural area, drive 60 miles to the nearest large book store, hoping to find the book I wanted in stock. I'll burn $15 worth of gas, contribute to adding pollutants into the air, and waste up three or four hours of time that I could use more productively. Oh yes, I'm so grateful that the government is diligently using vast amounts of my tax dollars to "protect my consumers rights" and save us all from the evil monopolists. Gives me a real warm, fuzzy feeling knowing that the DOJ has my best interests at heart. -JB