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

To: rudedog who wrote (12555)	11/24/1998 6:56:00 AM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

>>Fred- whoever wrote MS / Windows History of Thievery Review does not know his history very well. Most of that analysis is just wrong, urban myth.>> rudedog: Now's your chance to be rude. Tear me apart, Enlighten me. Show me. Pile on me. This is what the internet is all about. Showing your cards. I wrote that. You can nick pick and take issue with some or all of it. I have sent this to others before - both from MSFT and outside MSFT - prior to and after posting. Is this 100% accurate? Yyou be the judge. That's what we have these forums for. Just my attempt at sharing what I know to be the record. This was distilled from my readings, talks with others in the industry, etc. A fellow investor asked me to write my thoughts on this earlier this year. A more expanded and final version of that document was sent to thousands of contacts in politics, media and among investors throughout the country. So far this document, which was part of a more expanded and final piece has withstood the test of this much time and has been reviewed by many. More people should know the general outlines of how Gates has conducted his business in building the Windows monopoly. I'm sure others who are more enlightened than I are doing their best to expand on these general themes. That's what the DOJ case is all about. Maybe, just maybe all of us just got this entire mess just plain, dumb wrong. Perhaps we are all dreaming and we'll wake up and find what we've been seeing as a pattern in Gates's business practices is all "just wrong, urban myth." As I said, feel free to jump in and pile on. Fred