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

To: Moominoid who wrote (6841)	5/11/1998 12:12:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

David, as soon as I read that first sentence, The agreement signed by the State of Israel and the State of Microsoft is ridiculous.; I was turned off. Obviously MSFT isn't a State. What is the point of the letter? That governments shouldn't do business with private enterprise? Where's the beef? This is the nuts and bolts of the deal, according to the letter: every telephone owner in Israel will receive an e-mailbox from NetVision (partner to the agreement), with a Bezeq number (partner to the agreement) instead of a user name, which he will be able to use gratis one hour per month, a considerable amount for personal e-mail needs in Hebrew. For Israeli citizens, this looks like a very sweet deal. As for government granted regulated monopolies, what about the fact that I have no choice but to use US West as my local telephone provider, no matter how crappy the service? Sometimes it just makes sense to have one regulated entity provide everything, to take advantage of economies of scale for the consumer's benefit. This isn't something new and insidious, no matter how sinister the letter writer wants to make it sound. DK