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To: Snowshoe who wrote (2256)	10/8/2000 4:45:28 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12245

Snowshoe, I think MSFT's case is called sub judice. True, they've been through a lower court process, but there's further to go. I'll be surprised if the Supreme Court supports Judge Jackson's decision. The laws are absurd and based on cargo-cult mentality. They make all transactions illegal if the definition of a monopoly is drawn tightly enough. All businesses bundle things together. Heck I have to roam the aisles of a supermarket to find a products without the container and advertising illegally leveraged into being sold bundled with the product I actually want. The advertising should be sold in a stand. There should be a choice of containers individually for sale. There should be the products in dispensing containers. I would choose what information I want to buy. Then I'd chose the container I want to buy. Then I'd choose the product and put it in the container I chose. Microsoft also illegally bundles things. They put the operating system, and their other software all piled into one system and I have to buy the whole thing. It's so UnAmerican! I'm not even allowed to change it around and sell it as though it's still a Microsoft product. Oh the pain! Actually, the American economic domination is already over. The grasp of American voters on the world's economy is already slipping. Globalstar Telecommunications Limited and a lot more red-blooded American companies are actually Bermudan companies. bermuda.com Which just so happens to be flying the old British Empire Union Jack in their flag, not the Stars and Stripes. flags.com It is going to further reduce the economic domination of the USA. What the USA will do is act as the focal point for political stability for a while until the United Nations takes over that role. Most countries are now democratic and as that process continues, the undemocratic realpolitik based on raw power will reduce as people decide that it's better to have a worldwide democratic framework to live in. Already there are spectrum allocation processes which are handled by UN rules rather than the USA simply saying they own the whole lot. But much if not most action will be in cyberspace, where the USA voters and current dominance will be irrelevant. Get used to it!<g> 400 years is a longgggg time in cyberspace. Can you tell me precisely what MSFT did wrong? I haven't seen anything yet which made me think they did wrong. Precisely which law did they break? Mqurice