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RE: [SLUG] MS breakup

To: "David Zverina" <david@nospam.altkey.com>, "slug" <slug@nospam.slug.org.au>
Subject: RE: [SLUG] MS breakup
From: Jon Biddell <jon@nospam.fl.net.au>
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 22:41:17 +1000
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At 12:27 AM 5/1/00 +1000, David Zverina wrote:
>John wrote:
> > Please elucidate - I thought that companies were in business to make
> > money for their shareholders, and if that effort means that a competitor
> > "goes under", then that competitor maybe wasn't all that good in the
> > beginning and maybe deserved to fail. Note that, from the judgement,
> > Microsoft has done nothing ILLEGAL (let us distinguish ILLEGAL from
> > UNETHICAL or IMMORAL for the sake of argument).
>
>Microsoft has just been found guilty of breaching the Shermann act and
>numerous state acts. If that is not by definition illegal, then I dont know
>what is ... :)

Oops... OK, I hadn't read the entire story - serves me right for writing 
anti-Microsoft
email on a 'doze box, I guess...:-)

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