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To: Mo Chips who wrote (56930)	6/4/1998 9:30:00 AM
From: Scarecrow	Respond to of 186894

<You are right, I mistyped. I clearly understand the concept, this was a case of thinking one thing and typing another. > Mo, Thank you for your message. I appreciate your honesty. I've certainly made the same kinds of mis-typings before. Our discussion has gone down a rat hole about inelastic demand, VCRs, the NBA, etc. But, while I respect the passion you bring to your point of view, I cannot for a moment condone the notion that the government must set aside the market's verdict. If businesses weren't getting value they'd be the FIRST to stop using MSFT. The reason they won't buy Apple (or NeXT, or GEM, or....) is because those systems -- for whatever reason -- don't deliver as much productivity and value as the MSFT-based systems. As someone else said on this thread: I don't believe in unbridled capitalism. That surely has its excesses and failures. But MSFT -- or INTC -- isn't guilty of unbridled capitalism. Their only crime is that they're not likeable. To revive the NBA analogy again, maybe they're like a Dennis Rodman -- not very likeable but very effective in pushing the rules to the extreme. My bottom line (and my last post) on this: MSFT saw opportunities, exploited them aggressively, and in the process, pissed off the people they beat. Consumers get increasing amounts of value at decreasing prices. MSFT and INTC have been MAJOR components of a prosperity boom that is perhaps unrivaled in this century. Derailing that in the name of consumers is hypocrisy. The consumers have already chosen and they have benefitted greatly as a result of that choice. Intervention of this sort only discourages innovation and opens the door for foreign competition to swoop in and grab the lead. (See also: Steel, autos, etc.) IMHO, of course.... Scarecrow