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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (19747)	5/27/1998 1:52:00 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Dan, Real life is more messy -- and the technology community reluctantly is accepting the real-world truth that responsibilities accompany rights. So Gilmour sez. Statements have a way of becoming "facts" if repeated enough times. The only responsibility that Microsoft or any other company has, in a free, unregulated market, is to offer their products for sale, under any conditions they so choose, to customers who may or may not purchase them. BTW, I must thank you for continuing to mention libertarians, objectivists, John Galt, etc. Though caustic and disparaging your comments may appear, I'm sure you've managed to stimulate interest in the concepts involved among those who are not familiar with them. Many thanks. Regards, JB

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (19747)	5/28/1998 2:30:00 AM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Scott McNealy advocates a divestiture, then, if that doen't work, a breakup: biz.yahoo.com ''I would say you must divest yourself of all minority investments and no longer make any other equity investments of any size in any other company and use your $2.5 billion to create and innovate...rather than buying, bundling and beating up on smaller competitors who are out there actually trying to innovate,'' he told Boston business executives. ''I would try that as step one,'' McNealy said during a luncheon speech to the Boston College Chief Executives Club. ''And if they remained incorrigible, I would break them up, not horizontally, but I would create three Microsofts.'' Obviously, McNealy, antitrust affacionado that he is, is not a resident of Bork World. In Bork World, conglomerate mergers are exempt from antitrust scrutiny, size is a proxy for efficiency, and you don't break up big, efficient companies into little inefficient ones. . . . Just a little something to remind us that what passes for gospel in Bork World is not the law in our world.