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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (16485)	1/21/1998 4:57:00 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

&#147At the present, MSFT has significantly reduced the prices of browsers and servers while simultaneously increasing the functionality set.&#148 The first part is-well, fact. Nothing beats free. The second part is up for debate. You have to better describe the functionality set. I mean, there's plenty of IE-only and NN-only features around&#151you've heard of layers, I'm sure. That's only one small part of what a functionality set can be so be more specific. Anyway, MSFT is directly responsible for harming the consumer in the sense that they are bent on not sharing market space with Netscape, preferring instead to eliminate them. You're not really going to deny that, are you? -MrB&#153

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (16485)	1/21/1998 11:17:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (16485)	1/21/1998 1:48:00 PM
From: Justin Banks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Reg - At the present, MSFT has significantly reduced the prices of browsers and servers while simultaneously increasing the functionality set. How much does MSFT's server cost? -justinb

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (16485)	1/21/1998 10:19:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

But the governments ultimate interests lies with the consumer, and not corporate competition. At the present, MSFT has significantly reduced the prices of browsers and servers while simultaneously increasing the functionality set. This is a good thing. When, and only when MSFT is directly responsible for harming the consumer (not when a small subset of techies percieve it may happen) will the government actually act in the consumers best interest to intervene. Where o where have you been, Reg? Much has been said in the press of how the DOJ is arguing that the consumer is being harmed. If competition is eliminated for browsers, then MSFT can effectively use this as a basis for monopolizing the Internet. By allowing for competition to have a fair chance, the DOJ will serve the customer by helping to ensure that innovation continues. If the DOJ waits until specific material harm can be shown, it will be too late to do anything. You can't create competition out the ashes of the companies that got burned to death by MSFT.