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To: Thure Meyer who wrote (19401)	5/19/1998 11:08:00 AM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

<<<<Since I pay a lot of taxes (I hope you do too), I like to see that money benefit me a little more.>>>>> Yes and we can all be happy that part of our taxes went to prop up China's Ballistic missile program. <<<<<The government doesn't design airplanes either but it regulates air travel. Nor does it design HDTV but it regulates communications,.. the list goes on.>>>>> They regulate Social Security too and look how well they have done with that. <<<<<finally, no one is able to correctly predict the future. Nonetheless, we all have our job to do in the present. The DOJ has to enforce anti-trust laws, that's what they are doing.>>>>>> On this point we agree to a certain extent.

To: Thure Meyer who wrote (19401)	5/19/1998 11:55:00 AM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 24154

<The government doesn't design airplanes either but it regulates air travel. Nor does it design HDTV but it regulates communications,.. the list goes on> But the DOJ is not micromanaging Boeing airplanes nor Sony's high resolutions formats. They (the other parts of the govt., not thr DOJ) are leaving the design up to the companies, and instead are imposing minimum (not maximum) requirements. This is far from the case in MSFT's current dilemma.