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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brian Malloy who wrote (6409)	5/1/1998 11:27:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 74651

Brian: Gov't answer to Y2K prob: Hire thousands of people to write the new millenium dates in where the computers can't. Hire accountants to reverse all the numbers that base things on 1900. Hire consultants to tell them how to get out of this mess. You see all these people vote and can be controlled. JF Dowd

To: Brian Malloy who wrote (6409)	5/2/1998 2:32:00 AM
From: D.J.Smyth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

good points all. but, i believe the doj/states have already made up their minds regarding msft - and i bet 98% probability it won't be good news. they have a prayer - only - but if the plan for action is already written, what can they do? maybe if you all send a note to your senators over the internet. and ask for mercy. it;'s a legal morass. the doj believes they are doing corporate america's long term investors a favor - engendering competition. maybe they are right. personally i think msft should go to every length to fight them too (but this is very tricky - to challenge the power of the doj risks angering them further - they are upset with msft's new action)- but this could take months to settle; meanwhile windows 98 could languish. the doj is concerned that if they don't act now, the potential for controlling intellectual property over the internet is at stake forever. this is what i'm hearing.