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To: Chris who wrote (25805)	5/7/1998 8:57:00 PM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Chris, IMHO, the government watched as MSFT used their monopoly to consume all the MAJOR markets (word processing, spreadsheet and database) and they are pissed at themselves for not acting. To use a freebie browser as the issue "du jour", effectively halting the free flow of commerce in this country's leading industry, would be criminal. A better alternative to a MSFT breakup, or anything else I have heard suggested thusfar, would be to force MSFT to buy out Netscape at a premium price. Then I would finally have a Microsoft-supported browser that I really liked. Craig