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To: nommedeguerre who wrote (16369)	1/19/1998 9:30:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

I hear the whirlwind - do you own a Mac? If you do than you will note that NSCP need not fear IE4.0 for that machine just yet, especially since MJR 2.0 has come out. I can't see why NSCP and Mac and Sun don't merge and take on MSFT in the arena of the marketplace rather than asking DOJ to get into s'ware design. This Judge Jackson does not have the wit to match the swing of his gavel nor does DOJ have any idea what it is doing to wit they had to hire outside counsel. MSFT will prevail here. By the way Yale University in an article written to extol their coup of our library outbidding the rest of the world's archives for the KGB papers announced the feat with the following banner line: The good news is we got the KGB papers the bad news Mccarthy was very nearly right. Although I am no fan of old Joe he is much maligned in today's liberal press - which makes me inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt. ATT ruled the world by virtue of having the only wires hooked to our homes. IBM also had other physical barriers to 3rd party elements being added to their equipment. The size of each company played no part in the outcome of the anti-trust actions brought. It was dominance wrought by physical barriers that was at issue. In the case of MSFT anyone can write a 3rd party program to work with Windows. Anyone can write another OS i.e. Linux. In the case of IE4.0, any other browser vendor can add their browser to the desktop but MSFT is within its rights to sell the OS with the browser imbedded. This is nothing new and is perfectly fair as long as others are not estopped from supplying their browser as an add-in. MSFT is the farmer who just kept buying up the acreage and farming it better. They do not own the distribution system they just fill it the fastest. Your similes fit your argument but not the facts. In the words of the southern general MSFT was just there fustest with the mostest-----

To: nommedeguerre who wrote (16369)	1/19/1998 9:37:00 PM
From: miraje	Respond to of 24154

Norm, <<but I do recognize the farmer who owns both the farm and local shipping business for what he is. Using the trucking division profits and leverage to put the other legitimate farmers out of business may sound like capitalism to you but it sounds more like racketeering to me.>> What's to stop the other farmers from forming a shipping cooperative? What happens to the "racketeer" when his trucks have nothing to haul and he can't make the payments on them? There have been several posts equating MSFT and the old AT&T. Talk about two completely different situations! The old telephone monopoly was a govenment mandated quasi-socialist setup. Prices were fixed and regulated. Competition was forbidden by law. Busting up that elephant was valid and proper. "T" did do a good job of overhauling itself to compete in the market but it wasn't easy for them. Regards, JB