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

To: johnd who wrote (52151)	10/24/2000 3:45:40 PM
From: johnd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Let us see if compaq is seeing strong windows2000 acceptance

To: johnd who wrote (52151)	10/24/2000 4:00:10 PM
From: Dave	Respond to of 74651

Re "Would Balmer settle after elections?" I wonder what kind of settlement would be acceptable to both MSFT and DOJ? Judging from MSFT's proposed remedies, basically anything that has no teeth. They have a history of signing and breaking consent decrees. They admit having done no wrong. Perhaps a fair settlement would be ten years in a white collar prison for MSFT's top executives, dispersal of half of MSFT's assets to its end-user customers, forced open-sourcing of all software products, and community service by all MSFT investors who have profited from MSFT's crimes. Think Ballmer would go for that? Merely splitting up the company is a gift. MSFT execs should be jumping at the chance to split up and do no prison time. Come on, I'm kidding. Kinda. Dave