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To: Snowshoe who wrote (2261)	10/8/2000 6:58:23 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12245

<Actually I was referring to an earlier jibe of yours about America restricting sheep imports, the point being that we don't eat sheep anyway > Good grief. No wonder the NZ economy is going down the gurgler if the sheep farmers are shipping sheep to the USA [albeit in limited quota amounts] and they are not being sold. But I heard from a San Diegan that NZ lamb is sold and eaten in the USA. If nobody eats it, why restrict it? The best markets always seem to me to be the ones which offer the most money at auction. NZ also ships sheep to the Middle East. Live sheep at that in many cases so they can do Hallelujah Killing of them [they make mystical incantations then hack the poor animal's throat]. It's actually called Halal Killing. halalsafa.com Hmm, Hallelujah eating is more than a joke [I was making a joke with the Hallelujah Killing comment]http://www.hacres.com/ I am sure that companies, probably including Microsoft, will use other people's ideas if they can. They might even hold meetings on the pretext of mergers but really just wanting to find out about what's going on there. I doubt that is illegal and it is of course a voluntary assocation. So I don't see a need for legal intervention. Presumably the small company protects their intellectual property and keeps private matters which they would not want disclosed unless there is a legal commitment of some sort, perhaps including disclosure agreements such as QUALCOMM required companies to sign before telling them about CDMA in 1989. Theft is illegal, so I doubt that there is any evidence that Microsoft stole technology. Copied perhaps, but that's different from theft. If somebody legally copies CDMA, that's my problem and I don't blame them for doing it. We depend on patent law to protect against actual theft. It sounds as though your father should have sold off the unprofitable business anyway, irrespective of anti-trust laws. Profits are what spur innovation and competition. MSFT huge profits will make people compete to get a share of those profits. Mqurice