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

To: ToySoldier who wrote (16043)	2/15/1999 11:39:00 AM
From: blankmind	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

- it's not illegal to give away anything for free - if MSFT programmed its Windows 98 to not work with Netscape; that w/b illegal. - But trust me, giving away your browser for free isn't illegal. - Also, did MSFT buy IE or develop it in-house? thanks.

To: ToySoldier who wrote (16043)	2/15/1999 12:02:00 PM
From: Frank Ellis Morris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Microsoft wants to give away the internet explorer for free I do not see any reason why they should not. Microsoft owns the desk top operating system. IBM if they were smart enough years ago could have bought it from Gates but did not see its potential. I do not see any merit in your argument. There is nothing illegal about what Microsoft does but the case against it was illegal prejudicial and malicious. I guess the Justice Department and the States figured if we can screw Philip Morris and get away with it why not go after Microsoft, rape and rip off their shareholders too. Frank

To: ToySoldier who wrote (16043)	2/15/1999 7:22:00 PM
From: ed	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

I think your mind is preset to be against Microsoft. In Canada, did FORD/GM/CRYSLER/HONDA/TOYOTA/BENZE/BMW...etc sell cars with a default air conditions or car radios being pre installed ( What you called default) ? or you guys in Canada buy auto radios, air conditions separately ? Having a major market share of a certain product is different than having a monopoly over that certain product. If Microsoft really had a monopoly in the OS , then it did not have to worry about Linux, Java, or NN. It is because Microsoft did not have the monopoly, so it worried. Your concept is a company had a dominate market share of a certain product is criminal, who taught you that in economics? If your concept is taken by the law, then we in business world will all be in big trouble in a big time, because any company with high growth will eventually have the major market share and will be taken as a criminal by the government. To prevent being taken as a criminal by the government, all companies with high growth had to artificially limit their growth. A company's getting stronger and get more and more market share is just a result of free competition, unless you are in a communist state which control everything, including how companies should conduct in business. Probably, that is why we did not see any successful Canadian companies in the world market , because they are all tightly regulated by the government, and as a result high unemployment rate( over 10%) and high tax burden(over 40%) for every hard working citizen. It is a shame !!!!!!!! How can you predict whether Microsoft will lose or win in this case ? Did you get this impression from the medians or by reading every single written testimony of the witness ? or just by your own imagination ? No one knows whether Microsoft will lose or win at this point, besides, even if Microsoft lost this round, there will be appeals after appeals to come, and it will be a long war, while Microsoft will continue to beat street estimation quarter after quarter. Maybe, someday , a Republican president will dismiss the stupid case. So, why worry ?