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To: Alan Buckley who wrote (17527)	2/18/1998 1:30:00 AM
From: Bearded One	Respond to of 24154

the DOJ considered taking action to prevent them from doing so stating that it would take over the market just because it was on the desktop Your (incorrect) spin is that the DOJ claimed antitrust when no such antitrust existed. The DOJ never stated anything like that. Yes they considered it, but rather they came to the view that MSN would NOT take over the market just because it was on the desktop. In other words, the DOJ made a correct decision about antitrust. Their current actions against Microsoft are also correct. Oh, and Microsoft added AOL to the desktop as part of an agreement to get AOL to use Internet Explorer rather than Netscape Navigator. Netscape of course could offer no such deal to AOL.

To: Alan Buckley who wrote (17527)	2/18/1998 1:54:00 AM
From: Pink Minion	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Not so, obviously, and in fact MSFT has voluntarily added it's competitor AOL to the desktop since, because it was in the interest of their Windows customers to do so. Market forces working beautifully as usual. You guys sure do live in a fantasy world. All we ask is Microsoft not be allowed to leverage their monopoly to put competitors out of business. I know this is hard for you to comprehend, but the world is losing productivity gains because of the crappy software we are addicted too. Two of our senior, senior people spent the whole day dinking with our NT server today. Does this get added to the Dilbert tab? Mr. B