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To: Seattle Conservative
And others think it was because they were a monopoly that was illegally using it's monopoly power to crush other companies and stifle competition.

But hey, that's only what the US Courts, Circuit and Appelate, thought after reviewing all of the evidence, even the evidence that Microsoft's lawyers got caught forging.

I wonder what the response would have been if it had been some company like, say, CBS that got caught faking evidence....

Oh, wait....

188 posted on 11/11/2004 6:40:09 PM PST by Knitebane
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To: Knitebane

IMHO, it never would have gotten to the courts if there hadn't been so many lobbyists from the other side pushing it through the Dem (aka Reno) Justice Dept (who had some problems of their own they were trying to divert attention to). If these other companies could compete on their own they wouldn't be such cry babies. When I was little, and would go in whining to my mom that someone was picking on me, she send me back out and say go fight your own battles.
The other companies could have 'fought' Microsoft by inventing better products and selling them at better prices, but they didn't. The states and the gov't saw $$s - kind of like the tobacco suits.


193 posted on 11/11/2004 7:37:36 PM PST by Seattle Conservative (Seattle Conservative)
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