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

To: Carlos Blanco who wrote (7784)	5/21/1998 3:07:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Sure, it is purely my opinion that IE 4.0 and Windows 95 are being illegally tied. It also happens to be the opinion of the DOJ and 20 State Attorney Generals. So I continue to maintain that, with the exception of anything covered by the injunction, Microsoft should be able to dictate licensing terms for its products to Compaq or anyone else. I see a heady mixture of law and ethics here. Are we talking about what Microsoft has a right to do? Or what is legal for them to do? You seem to be saying that until a court explicitly says that a particular action is illegal, Microsoft has the right to perform that action. That is, Microsoft is not going to self-regulate themselves at all. Which is going to get them into lots and lots of trouble.