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

To: C. Niebucc who wrote (8074)	5/27/1998 5:48:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Good article, thanks. "Its brief against Microsoft reads like an industrial policy document promoting the Netscape-Java-network vision of computing. Justice is living in the past. It believes the world wants a competitor for Microsoft 's standard equipment, when what the world really wants is brand new stuff." All of that article was good, and goes into all the things I've been saying. Wintel is more than word processing. Netscape was fantasizing if they actually thought they could stop the MSFT locomotive, which hauls a 1,000 car-long technology partner freight train.

To: C. Niebucc who wrote (8074)	5/27/1998 8:10:00 PM
From: dumbmoney	Respond to of 74651

I like this quote: "Its brief against Microsoft reads like an industrial policy document promoting the Netscape-Java-network vision of computing." That sums it up nicely. The doj isn't interested in promoting "choice", they are interested in making sure those dumb consumers don't make the "wrong" choice. After all, Netscrape works perfectly under Win98, and it's actually easier to download then before. So what's the problem? Only that the doj thinks it is "unfair" that Microsoft has made it easier to choose their solution. It's like saying that consumers can't really choose between two products at the grocery store unless they are placed on the same shelf, with equal advertising exposure. It's a fruity brand of corporate egalitarianism.