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

To: dumbmoney who wrote (7892)	5/23/1998 10:11:00 AM
From: X-Ray Man	Respond to of 74651

You're right. And with probably the same result.

To: dumbmoney who wrote (7892)	5/23/1998 1:12:00 PM
From: FR1	Respond to of 74651

"It's all about money, pal. Microsoft has it and Blumenthal wants it." Yeah, everyone knows that DOJ can handle the case by itself and nothing big is going to come out of it but all the attorney generals want to get a photo-op in. Stand over the dead lion and say "I made the monopolies promise not to bully again!" It is very much like the tobacco case. People think that the attorney generals are Robin Hood taking from the baddies and giving to the poor people. Actually they are just raising the price of groceries for everyone in the state, taking the cash and port-barreling it out for future favors, and getting maximum photo-ops. The tobacco businesses, like Microsoft, aren't going to pay a dime. They diversified a long time ago and own, among other things, the common groceries you buy every day. Sue them for a billion and the price of Shredded Wheat and Fig Newton go up tomorrow so you can pay every dime of the big win. Same with MSFT. The attorney generals get big photo-ops and pork barrel money. The newspapers hammer on big business to increase circulation and ad revenue (journalist only exist in museums called schools). And nobody tells the public they are paying for all this. What a soap-opera.