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

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (60759)	8/21/2001 11:08:33 AM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 74651

John, re >Can you imagine GM having to run every new model past the court system every fall?< Let's not give the courts any ideas. :) Regards. G.

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (60759)	8/21/2001 11:30:34 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

John, you're so right. If "Cadillac, Ford, Chrysler, etc." were to merge and form a big auto monopoly, they would have to obey our nation's antitrust laws. If that monopoly started break those laws willy-nilly and thumbing its nose at our government and our laws and our population and the car parts suppliers and the rest of the world, and then it started leveraging its auto monopoly to monopolize the bicycle industry and the home appliance industry and public transportation and sanitation and encyclopedia sales, well I would hope that the DOJ would start to concern itself with getting this monopoly to chill out. Dave

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (60759)	8/22/2001 2:07:55 AM
From: margie	Respond to of 74651

Susan Creighton has been chosen “to be a deputy director for the FTC under Joseph Simons, a former Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells partner who was named director of the agency's Bureau of Competition in June. Creighton will be “handling litigation at the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition. The Bush administration is not just carrying the torch left by the previous DOJ; they are fanning the flames big time. “Microsoft's Captain Ahab” by Krysten Crawford, from The American Lawyer August 22, 2001 from law.com or law.com ”In antitrust circles, Creighton is a card-carrying anti-Microsoft agitator. Five years ago -- while her then-partner Gary Reback played a more public role -- Creighton penned the infamous white paper commissioned by Netscape." Susan Creighton is a partner at Silicon Valley’s Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Creighton and she and Gary Reback “helped ignite the government's landmark case against the monopolist from Redmond, Wash. “ That paper was never made public because it showed what a pathetic company Netscape really was, "but that White Paper was instrumental in prodding the Department of Justice into action.” Creighton and Reback are both fanatic Microsoft bashers. Creighton graduated from Stanford in 1984, clerked for for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, and joined the Silicon Valley law firm of Wilson Sonsini that is responsible for the anti Microsoft jihad. Creighton and Reback “took up the anti-Microsoft crusade on behalf of Netscape and other Silicon Valley companies in the mid-1990s. "Creighton was recently chosen by Michael Petit of ProComp to write a paper against Microsoft. “Creighton and a team of lawyers and software engineers dissected beta versions of Microsoft's .NET software for evidence of predatory shenanigans.” Creighton came up with the 59-page "Passport to Monopoly" for ProComp a few months ago. ProComp distributed her paper to various state attorneys general involved in the antitrust suit. AG Blumenthug and Miller used her paper to express “their””new concerns” about Windows XP and instant messaging and the Windows Media player and all that other bullshit. This article claims that lawyers who know her say she won’t carry her past allegiances to follow her: they "don't expect her past allegiances to follow her east." "I trust her judgment and I trust she will take the right positions," says Peter Detkin, a former Wilson Sonsini partner who's now assistant general counsel at a company that has had its own run-ins with the FTC.” "Another antitrust lawyer suggests that Creighton will likely recuse herself from Microsoft matters and other cases where the appearance of a conflict is glaring." Expecting a fanatic like Creighton to be unbiased, not just towards Microsoft, is like expecting Nazi's to be unbiased against Jews. The hatred is too deep. No wonder the Bush administration never expressed any support for Microsoft. Gee, is that why the FTC has suddenly decided to play a role in Microsoft’s case. I had read somewhere that James Barksdale was given a position in the Bush administration, but never could find that reference again. I thought I might have been imagining but I guess I wasn’t. Choosing Creighton, Barksdale, John Roberts, Charles James….says it all.. James has already drafted rules for companies to avoid antitrust, and it involves requiring them to submit voluntarily to extortion. Give a few billion here or there, divest this or that, give it to competitors etc. An attorney from the DOJ once described Susan Creigton's law partner, Gary Reback as "twisted. From the article by John Heilemann in Wired Magazine, November 2000- The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth!. Reback "had a taste for avant-garde economic theories and a tendency to level extravagant accusations without much hard proof to back them up. He was, in the strictest sense, a zealot: a man both fanatical and fanatically earnest in his beliefs. Later, when the DOJ decided to go after Microsoft, a government lawyer was assigned to "deal" with Reback. "His heart's in the right place," this lawyer told me. "But he's twisted. He leaves me these voicemails in the middle of the night, raving about all kinds of stuff. He really needs some help." navigation.helper.realnames.com The US needs some help but the DOJ is as twisted as Reback and his partner Creighton, imo. settlement talks....sure...