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

To: J Krnjeu who wrote (7380)	5/17/1998 10:14:00 PM
From: Scotsman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Indeed, I have never personally been an advocate of the law suit, I am just calling it as I see it. But I know many people that don't like big business, and you don't get much bigger than MSFT. And I would also make a point that Bill Gates has always been the "kid that did good" when in fact he is a very ruthless businessman. Not a real lovable character. Great for us on this thread to discuss, but in a courtroom, well, it isn't going to win him any brownie points. I used to be very much an anti MSFT person. I felt at the time that there was no competition possible with it as it controlled the "gateways" if you will. But I went back and reviewed past anti-trust cases and found that in all of them competition was already starting to weaken them when the government broke them up. The case you refer to, IBM, is a classic example. Indeed, they were a monopoly at the time. Than the PC came in, and they lost it. In fact, IBM made MSFT. If they had been smart enough to have a exclusivity contract with MSFT that DOS belonged to IBM, they might still be there. But they didn't and the rest is history.