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To: odd lot who wrote (17063)	2/4/1998 1:54:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Be fair to Microsoft, Gorton urges sjmercury.com This article is credited to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Good old Mr. Salvage Rider weighs in for a favored constituent. He's got 4 points, I should check how they correlate with Bill's 4 principles. ''There is absolutely no evidence that consumers are being hurt in any way by a lack of competition in the software industry,'' he wrote. ''On the contrary, the software industry is providing consumers with continually improving products, falling prices, and faster innovation.'' Ah, the old "innovation, falling prices" line. Free IE, free beer! What other Microsoft products have fallen in price of late? Word is, OEM prices are rising. Meanwhile, the consumers are getting what they want- the grotty old Win95 retail version that the OEMs won't touch. ''While Microsoft is an industry leader, its detractors have succeeded in exaggerating its perceived size in order to inflate their claims that the company threatens competition,'' he wrote. Well if its detractors exaggerate, I'd say its supporters here exaggerate a lot more, but I suppose it's one of those context things. Microsoft is a glorious and inevitable monopoly, except in a certain legal frame of reference. And in John Donahoe's dictionary, of course. Cheers, Dan.