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To: XiaoYao who wrote (11912)	10/29/1998 3:39:00 AM
From: ed	Respond to of 74651

From a legally technical point of view, the DOJ may have violated the atitrust law itself. Thinking about the fact that three days right after the famous meeting between MSFT and NSCP in 1995, the DOJ helped NSCP to file a suit against MSFT to protect NSCP's then monopoly position of the browser market when NSCP still held more than 90% of that market , and that NSCP had announced publicly by its own founder that NSCP will definitely give away its browser free, and that the browser market is not what NSCP is up to. From another angle , DOJ is actually helping NSCP to hold the monopoly position in the browser market so that it can later use its monopoly in the browser market to dominate the e-commerce market. The fact is NSCP is now aggressively penetrating in the e-commerce business. NSCP is now showing its true color, and DOJ is helping NSCP to reach that goal. This is the unarguable FACT.

To: XiaoYao who wrote (11912)	10/29/1998 4:05:00 AM
From: ed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

NSCP said it is not good for MSFT to dominate the browser market , because all the web builders will have to talk to MSFT. Then the question is why it is good if NSCP hold more than 90% of the browser market and all the web builders will have to talk to NSCP ? So, the IE 's taking over 60% of the browser market as of today only helps the market to reach a balanced point betweenf two products of Browser, i.e IE and Navigator, which will offer more choice to the consumers, and the majority of the web builders will not have to talk to either NSCP or MSFT . I do not understand why DOJ help NSCP to keep the monopoly of the browser market with the noncommercial method. Maybe , there is something under the table people do not know.

To: XiaoYao who wrote (11912)	10/29/1998 11:10:00 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 74651

I agree with you, but "ed" doggedly takes an entirely different (and IMHO unsupportable) position. JMHO.

To: XiaoYao who wrote (11912)	10/29/1998 2:33:00 PM
From: XiaoYao	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

...... After the day's court session, David Boies, the lead trial lawyer for the Justice Department, said that the Microsoft defense team's focus on a proposed arrangement between Netscape and America Online was another attempt by Microsoft to ''change the subject.'' ''The antitrust rules are different for a company with monopoly dominance like Microsoft,'' Mr. Boies said. ''In the case of Netscape and America Online, neither one of them had monopoly power.'' At the time the deal was being negotiated, however, America Online was four times as large as its nearest competitor, and Netscape had an estimated 84 percent of the browser market