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To: Alan Buckley who wrote (18348)	4/6/1998 3:54:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Oh, cut it out Alan. You're always putting some new angle on MSFT/INTU. There's always the straightforward "Microsoft is the dominant application vendor, and it would be anticompetitive if they bought the dominant company in an area they didn't control", but that would be spin-insensitive wouldn't it? Money came up because of the line that Microsoft would "preserve competition" by fobbing it off on somebody cheap. It was a defense line by Microsoft. On the merger considerations itself, I doubt Money made that big a deal. Or maybe it did, who knows. To repeat my standard line, you guys want antitrust repealed, or statutory immunity for Microsoft, the process is straightforward. Otherwise, that particular action looks well within the normal range of law enforcement in that area, like it or not. Cheers, Dan.

To: Alan Buckley who wrote (18348)	4/6/1998 6:20:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Alan, >I think we need a law that every lawyer must run a business profitably for 3 years before practicing anti-trust law. I think we need a law where every software vendor must use their own products for 3 years before unloading them onto the consumer. >Did you all see Alan Greenspan's comments about how government interference in free markets played a role in the Asian collapse? I thought it was the poorly run free-markets of Asia that got themselves in trouble? What is Indonesia's excuse? It is the government's fault for lending money to poorly run economies that is for sure. Cheers, Norm

To: Alan Buckley who wrote (18348)	4/6/1998 10:28:00 PM
From: Thure Meyer	Respond to of 24154

"Did you all see Alan Greenspan's comments about how government interference in free markets played a role in the Asian collapse?" Now there is a statement taken completely out of context! I read all the testimony and that reference has nothing to do with how Microsoft operates. If you actually read Greenspan's comments you will see that he is in favor of regulating markets in a rational fashion. This stuff about "free markets" is just a smoke screen anyway. You will have to explain what you mean when using that term. Thure