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To: Judd who wrote (11996)	11/25/1998 10:27:00 AM
From: Lynn	Respond to of 64865

MSFT is going to ask Justice to throw out their case now that AOL is buying Netscape, citing that this demonstrates that it (MSFT) does not have a monopoly: Title: Microsoft urges government to drop antitrust case dailynews.yahoo.com Although I hope MSFT does not get their own way, I do have the gut feeling that MSFT officers were jumping for joy when the AOL announcement was made since now, Netscape will cease to exist on its own according to the article you pointed us to [thanks, Judd]: aol.com [quote begin] Under the deal, America Online Inc., based just outside Washington in Dulles, Va., is expected to operate Netscape Communications Corp. as a separate division in Mountain View, Calif. But the 4-year-old company whose software popularized the Internet -- and whose dramatic debut on the stock market was among the most successful ever -- would cease to exist as an independent entity. [quote end] Lynn