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

To: David Howe who wrote (67187)	4/12/2002 1:11:53 PM
From: Dave	Respond to of 74651

I expect that at this time SUNW and AOL would use leverage of this type with a vengence. They would crush the consumer given a single tiny opening. Dave, you may well be right about this. You can probably lump AAPL in that category too, of companies that might well abuse monopoly power if they somehow attained it. And I will argue strongly for curtailing those abuses if they ever happen. Remember, these companies are all in the business of maximizing their profits, competition and the consumer be damned. Absent some kind of benevolent altruism that you wouldn't find in a high-tech CEO, only powerful government antitrust regulation can temper the incentive to subvert free markets and gouge the consumer. Let's hope those last nine states don't cave and cash their MSFT lobby checks and give in. The futures of high tech capitalism and the free market are counting on them. [MSFT] used the leverage to a VERY modest extent So you've said. The facts simply belie your belief. Dave