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

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (56748)	3/20/2001 1:59:00 AM
From: Thunder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

It's Microsoft's choice. If they would stay within the confines of the law, they wouldn't attract this kind of attention. I think you're confusing Law with Money, Power and 'Their' choice. As long as it's easier to litigate The Goose, why bother to compete in the box? If I were them, I wouldn't either - maybe it's easier. It's both sad, true and their choice to attempt the skirmish outside the box and Law. It's a heavy price on everyone, esp. when we all pay in the end. Nobody gains. Thunder

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (56748)	3/20/2001 2:35:22 AM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Ya know, Chuck, this is just the kind of thing that may backfire against AOL. At bottom, AOL is steering toward a closed pay per view system with proprietary content. Their plan mimics the Radio Networks of the 30's and 40's and the TV networks of the 60's. You will have to pay to broadcast and pay to listen. It will be VERY difficult for them to find a law which protects them from competition and the harder they try to use the court system to perpetuate their monopoly, the more apparent it will be to everyone (with the possible exception of yourself, of course :) ) that Judge Jackson's opinion was not a correct interpretation of existing law.