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To: Sully- who wrote (45106)	12/13/2001 10:45:10 AM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 65232

ATT failures point out how arrogance and stupidity is bred monopoly provides the distorted breeding ground CEO Armstrong is not only arrogant, but abusive and micromanages they overpaid for MediaOne by 200% they destroyed @Home they sold huge shares of ATTWireless to their own employees and oligopolies like automobile and oil companies arent much better oligopolies encourage almost no risktaking they build bureaucracies within their organizations but monopolies encourage thoughts of omnipotence I hope that is Microsoft's downfall just heard from IT guy at my firm Microsoft is now increasing substantially their license fees for Windows2000 this enables service support they want customers to migrate to WindowsXP our firm is not interested in WinXP now we must decide whether to swim without a raft this is forced purchases of upgrades by predatory price control arrogance, but not yet stupidity all in the face of the Court System when antitrust violations are numerous and in legal findings oy, jim