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

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (7106)	5/14/1998 8:37:00 AM
From: the Druid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

We will see the details of the lawsuit today. However, this situation is getting ugly and out of control. I, as many here, are having misgivings with the current waves of attack on Microsoft. 1) Microsoft is not a tobacco company. Their products are not harmful to our health and they are not hiding the "bugs" or "potential addictive power" in their product. And they are NOT conducting the research under direction of lawyers with the main purpose to avoid lawsuits. So why is this vindictive zeal and "pile-on" "me-too" attitude towards one of the greatest companies? Investigation of possible unfair practices (with the browser, Java) by DOJ is reasonable. 20 states piling on top it is NOT. 2) The government is allowing the merger of Citibank with Travelers (which absorbed Salomon), First Union with Corestate, etc etc. I believe those cases are not for increased competition and not for the benefit of consumers and customers. They also eliminate a lot of job opportunities for a lot of folks. If all these supermergers are not rejected (in banking, automotive, etc) on antitrust ground, what is the the argument of breaking up MSFT?