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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14999)	12/17/1997 3:35:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

States Considered Antitrust Action Against Microsoft nytimes.com The Global Ilk Conspiracy- We're here, we're there, we're everywhere, so beware! Last Thursday, as a federal district judge was ruling that Microsoft Corp. had violated a 1995 antitrust agreement with the Justice Department, attorneys general from some of the nation's most populous states were concluding a secret three-day meeting in Chicago to assess their own strategy for a possible antitrust action against Microsoft's marketing practices. The meeting -- coupled with government investigations under way in Europe and Asia, a continuing private antitrust suit and the specter of hearings in the U.S. Senate -- suggest that the world's most powerful software company could soon find that it has become a Gulliver enmeshed in Lilliputian legal entanglements around the globe. ... Microsoft's legal woes next year may extend overseas. Last Wednesday a representative from Ralph Nader's public interest group met in Brussels with legal authorities of the European Union, where the competition and antitrust division of the European Commission is considering opening an investigation of Microsoft's business practices. ... Microsoft may also be facing legal challenges to its economic power in Asia. Laywers for the Netscape Communications Corp., Microsoft's competitor in the World Wide Web browser market, said this week that the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in Japan and the government of South Korea had begun separate investigations into Microsoft's business practices. But Bill still has his friends in the real People's Republic, all he has to do is convince them to pay for his software. Might help if they had something like the justice system and respect for rule of law we take for granted, some of us anyway. Everybody ganging up on Microsoft almost makes me sympathetic, but I got to remember my prayer. Cheers, Dan.