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To: Terrapin who wrote (2461)	7/13/1998 1:07:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 29970

You're naive because you believe what politicians say when there is no heat on them. Later they will be saying the complete opposite when those lobbyists from the RBOCs remind them that elections are near. It's your claim too. Your view about free markets represents the majority view. The characterization is "we want free markets, but they have to be fair markets". Fair markets by definition aren't free. You accept the consequence: mediocrity, and that makes you feel secure. Meanwhile the rest of the world isn't interested in your quaint philosophy. They're going to take the output from your fair market and compete it out of existence. The Japanese have only been the first salvo. I run VJ++ 6.0 and Sun's JDK. I don't agree with a word you said. MSFT is guilty of a lot of garbage, but you are just parroting what the popular press and officials from the DOJ, Sun, and NSCP say. As usual the real problems are completely missed in this attempt to hoodwink the public. The above mentioned authorities are practicing non-competitive behavior. They don't care about what the public has to deal with, they only care about implementing their own non-competitive agendas which they presume will look good to the public. The companies use the government to pull down an aggressive competitor and the government wants to look good doing the good and rightful thing. The outcome will be a bigger and more bloated MSFT creating worse products for more money, both Sun and NSCP won't be helped, and the DOJ will lose in court which will encourage MSFT to persist with the activities that actually are driving us crazy: poor software, beta writes sent out as fully tested, new versions every six months, apps growing in size, incompatibility with MSFT's own apps, service packs, and after the DOJ loses, one outcome will be that we will have to pay more or pay for stuff like IE as part of the settlement with the government. Thank you, believers in fairness.