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To: miraje who wrote (19737)	5/27/1998 1:47:00 AM
From: M31	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

James Bowers Re: <<Microsoft must be free, period. That's the kind of America I want to live in.>> Free to do what? Illegally leverage its OS monopoly to eliminate competition? Regards, M31

To: miraje who wrote (19737)	5/27/1998 7:46:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Microsoft must be free, period. That's the kind of America I want to live in. The waggish reply would be the paraphrase of the old saying, popular in techno-llibertarian circles I hear: If you love something, set it free / If it doesn't come back, hunt it down and kill it. But on a more serious note, we have Dan Gilmour from a few days back: The basic particles of the Information Age are binary: zero and one. On, off. Yes, no. Real life is more messy -- and the technology community reluctantly is accepting the real-world truth that responsibilities accompany rights. The Microsoft antitrust case will be seen by history as a turning point. It marked one of those moments -- though certainly not the first -- when the real world took notice of an industry's growing importance and asked some hard questions. (from mercurycenter.com The title of that column was "For tech firms, maturity is a system requirement". In the current context, I've noted my views on who the real crybaby whiner is. "We must be free to imitate, er, integrate, I mean, innovate, yeah, that's the ticket". It's all so unfair. Cheers, Dan.