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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (6806)	5/9/1998 9:42:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

After all this time, Netscape still holds a 55% market share of the browser business -- this is the dirty little secret that the anti-MicroSoft camp would prefer you didn't know -- Netscape is the monopoly power here. That the DOJ would step in on behalf of a monopoly power like Netscape is (to copy a phrase used by Bill Gates), beyond bizarre. First off-- I find it remarkable that people here consider Netscape's 55% market share a monopoly, but don't regard Microsoft's 90+% PC O/S share a monopoly. The next time Netscape threatens to put Compaq out of business you can call them a monopoly. Until then, it's Microsoft.

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (6806)	5/10/1998 2:06:00 AM
From: M31	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Re: <<Netscape still holds a 55% market share of the browser business... Netscape is the monopoly power here. That the DOJ would step in on behalf of a monopoly power like Netscape is (to copy a phrase used by Bill Gates), beyond bizarre.>> No, what's beyond bizarre is that billy gates would refer to Netscape as a monopoly with its 55% market share and deny that microsoft's 90+% market share in PC OSs is a monopoly! That type of self-serving distortion of reality is exactly why DOJ should break them up. They still haven't come to grips with the responsibilities inherent in their market domination. M31