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To: Big Kahuna who wrote (6333)	4/30/1998 2:22:00 PM
From: Kevin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

>I don't see how anyone owning MSFT can lose in the long run. I agree 100%. With computer going everywhere, what you run on those box. Window is the way. So how can you lose with these no competition demand. What they can do to MSFT? Kill Window and hope other company invent other OS? UNIX is good, of course. But they lose market. I think these 13 state just jealous on Bill.

To: Big Kahuna who wrote (6333)	4/30/1998 2:31:00 PM
From: Maverick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

States gang up on SFT, part V New York, Texas, Massachusetts and California are described as leaders of the group; each of those states serves as home to large concentrations of high-technology companies whose interests the attorneys general are trying to protect. ''Innovation and competition are particularly important if you are from Massachusetts because there is so much innovation and creativity coming from entrepreneurs and academics here,'' Harshbarger said. But other states involved, like Iowa and South Carolina, have few if any of these companies. Most states have anti-trust laws patterned after the federal law, and many attorneys general say they are acting on behalf of consumers. As Miller, the Iowa attorney general, put it: ''We enforce the anti-trust laws to protect consumers. If Microsoft can use its monopoly in operating systems to leverage its way into other areas, then consumers will suffer because of price and quality, and the whole system will suffer from loss of innovation.'' But there are still other reasons. In South Carolina, for example, Condon seems interested in protecting the state's economy -- and making history. ''We just got a report that unemployment in this state is 2.4 percent,'' he said. ''The economy is booming, and I am certain that a large part of that is new technology. I want it to keep going.'' But, he added: ''I suspect before our lives are over we will look back at this as the time when the ground rules are set for these industries. It could get rough; there's lots at stake here. But this could indeed be one of the most important cases of the NEXT century.''