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

To: ToySoldier who wrote (9845)	7/31/1998 1:25:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

You are right that there are other desktop OS options in the industry, but as you fail to take into account, that means squat when you are talking about a monopoly. Let me ask you Nas, if you were to install MAC or Linux or BeOS and you walk into any computer store, what variety of software do you have compared to the WinX shelves on the other side of the store? So you believe that Microsoft should be punished because third-party vendors refuse to sell products that run on competing operating systems?

To: ToySoldier who wrote (9845)	7/31/1998 1:25:00 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

MSFT HAS A MONOPOLY ON THE DESKTOP - END OF STORY! SO WHAT?!! Your beloved NOVL once had a de facto NOS monopoly. Sen. Orrin Hatch-et wasn't blathering on about evil monopolists back then. Principles seem to bend in accordance with whose ox is being gored. Anti-trust laws need to be abolished. Any "monopoly" gained and sustained in a free unregulated market should be admired and not punished. Basic Capitalism 101, a course that needs to be taught much more than it is.