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

To: David Freidenberg who wrote (60471)	8/9/2001 4:48:15 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

All right guys, I know, you're all mad at Judge Jackson for talking to reporters while the case was going on. But the Appeals Court examined the evidence, listened to arguments from both sides, and decided unanimously that Jackson showed no evidence of actual bias. He may have exercised judicial misconduct, but that's not the same as misjudging the case. And although they did reverse his remedy, after deliberating on the evidence, they found unanimously that he was correct in finding Microsoft guilty of abuse of antitrust law. Seriously, were you guys even paying attention to the antitrust trial? These guys are so guilty you can smell it from here! Whining to the Supreme Court will accomplish nothing but to delay the inevitable. Even if Microsoft manages to stall the judicial process long enough to begin shipping its vastly predatory XP operating system, the Court's remedies may well force Microsoft to remove licensing and pricing restrictions on computer makers that make it prohibitive to bundle the software that their customers want, like QuickTime, Real, Java, AOL, Earthlink, and so on. Computer makers want to be allowed to compete with one another by offering excellent products, not to be hogtied and horsewhipped into submission by an abusive software monopoly. Dave