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To: blankmind who wrote (16620)	2/21/1999 11:05:00 PM
From: miraje	Respond to of 74651

Why don't the Democrats just admit they hate Bill Gates & will stop at nothing to get him? This is not a Republican/Democratic issue. You'll find Democratic politicians from the state of Washington to be almost unanimous in support of MSFT. On the other hand, supposedly pro free enterprise "conservative" Republicans such as Orrin (Novell) Hatch and Robert (paid for by Netscape) Bork support and encourage this governmental assault on the best of American business. Everyone has their own axe to grind on this issue. Take ToyBoy and his fellow MSFT haters posting here. On the one hand they state that MSFT's products are crap, their competitors will be eating their lunch, their business will be going downhill from here, yada yada and so on, and at the same time they yammer their support for the US government to attack our capitalist system, which is exactly what this "trial", (more like kangaroo court), is doing. Some government lawyers and bureaucrats are driven by pure power lust. The power to control and regulate that which they could never accomplish themselves. Slimy little statists. Other politicians, such as Hatch and certain of the state AG's pursuing this case, are cynically attempting to further the business interests of their own constituents who are MSFT competitors. Think it's just coincidence that Utah (Novell), New York (IBM), California (NSCP, SUNW, ORCL, etc), are among the gang of 19? I'm sure that some of the other state AG's are slobbering at the prospect of another potential financial windfall. They screwed the tobacco companies (actually tobacco consumers), they're trying to screw MSFT, and who knows who's next on the agenda, (maybe a piece of the INTC action, perhaps?). Protecting consumers? What a bad joke!! It's just the money, baby, extorted under the pretense of noble sounding causes, however irrational in fact. But by far and away the most despicable participants in this farce are the whining billionaire pseudo-libertarian entrepreneur competitors of Gates and company. They make me puke. And I will certainly laugh when the day comes that they feel the weight of government regulation and oversight on their businesses. Anti-trust laws are a mixture of Alice-in-Wonderland with a heavy dose of Orwell thrown in. They should indeed be thrown out. JB