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

To: Bearded One who wrote (7781)	5/21/1998 3:12:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 74651

"threatened to put one of Compaq's lines out of production." is a more accurate characterization, thanks for the response. Even that action by MSFT is pretty aggressive given Compaq's presence and value to them, one wonders what they might have done to a smaller player. BTW Intel does stuff like that all the time, they are much more retaliatory in their defense of both market position and IP than MSFT IMO. Although I believe that the aggressive defense of both IP and market by the largest players needed some correction, we don't want to cure the disease by killing the patient.