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

To: David Howe who wrote (60015)	7/19/2001 2:11:19 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

<< Insidiously, incrementally, Microsoft is getting more and more of me. That has me >> ...thrilled! I'd love to see a justification, without resorting to greedy calculations of money in your own pocket due to any rise in the price of MSFT shares, for how you can be thrilled to see a monopolist own more and more personal data about each of us. Remember when I asked "werefrog" if he or she would invest in the Mafia if it were a publicly traded company? When the response was "yes," I knew I had just nailed the big difference between MSFT investors and MSFT bashers. For many of us old-fashioned investors, holding shares of a publicly traded company is literally owning a fraction of the company. For us, the ethics of fractional ownership is the same as the ethics of complete ownership of a small business. If we don't like the tactics of a small business in the community, we wouldn't think of owning that company. Likewise, if we we disapprove of the methods of a public corporation (especially if those methods have been deemed illegal by federal courts!), we would never buy shares in that corporation. Of course, to a MSFT fan, such logic is absurd. Money is money. More money is better money. Dave