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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (1243)	6/12/1998 9:36:00 AM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1600

It's definitely a religious war .. Perhaps it is. I guess what it comes down to is that I think a) the term "monopoly" is misused as it is applied to Microsoft, and b) the DOj and others don't seem to understand the issues. My cable company is a monopoly. I literally have no choice as to my cable provider. I cannot get it someplace else. That to me is a monopoly. that is not the case with my computer. I have free choice to install Windows, Linux, MacOS, BeOS and others on the computer I choose. I can install IE, Netscape, Lynx, AOL or other browsers. I can freely choose what runs my computer. That is not a monopoly. Perhaps that is not how the DOJ or the law defines a monopoly, and I can accept that. I just don't agree.