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To: Bearded One who wrote (21531)	11/18/1998 8:32:00 AM
From: Scotsman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

What do ya'll (yea, I'm Southern,) think of this for a defense stratagy for MSFT against JAVA. They say, OK, you win. We will pull all Win98 off the market. Win 95 won't be availible either. No MSFT OS of any kind. Dell Gateway and 90% of the box makers can't ship computers because they don't have an OS. The mutual fund manager, which own MSFT, DELL and the other over priced momentum stocks, immediately sell because obviously you can't sell computers without OS. The market tanks big time. 401K shares collapse. General panic. The masses scream, the polls are taken showing 90% of the people want the suit dropped. Since we run on polls based upon the current Clinton crud, the courts have no choice but to fold. MSFT wins and wins big. No one would ever touch them again. Gates is victorious by using his monopoly power as it should be used, to crush his opposition and corrupt the government to his will. A little tongue in cheek.

To: Bearded One who wrote (21531)	11/18/1998 11:07:00 PM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Did I wriggle out of the natural monopoly sinkhole with that? :) I don't think so. Each one of those platforms does itself have, to the extent network effects kick in, the potential to become a natural monopoly. The question will then become whether the potential becomes reality by virtue of (a) network effects doing their thing, and (b) there not being any reasonably close substitutable platforms available for the functions performed on any given platform. On the issue of deadweight loss, which you dodged, I think I misconstrued the significance of the last couple of witnesses. I think the deadweight loss comes from the Windows OS monopoly itself, and all of these people are just talking about Microsoft's efforts to defend that. So, I'll let you off this time, since even natural monopolies cause deadweight loss. ;)