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Without going into a long discussion, last year one of the rumors floating
around was to separate Microsoft into 2 companies. One to develop and sell
the operating system(s), the second to develop and sell all the other
Microsoft software.
About a hundred years ago, the US government "broke" up the Standard Oil
Trust into several different companies, seven I think. Does anyone believe
that this affected Rockefeller's dominance of the oil industry or reduced
his income in anyway?
Lionel Issen
lissen@xxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "A.J. Maas" <anthmaas@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Metastock-List" <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 4:43 PM
Subject: to be or not to be
> Time to call for a worldwide import ban on US goods + US products
!!!!!!!!
>
> (If the below joke from the very industry dominating US-government and
> its marionettes gets through. First we had the CIAinfiltrating, now
> the Gov themselves chainsawing the legs off of a table).
>
> Regards,
> Ton Maas
> ms-irb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Dismiss the ".nospam" bit (including the dot) when replying and
> note the new address change. Also for my Homepage
> http://home.planet.nl/~anthmaas
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> Today's WinInfo
> Report: U.S. government seeks to break up Microsoft!
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>
> Report: U.S. government seeks to break up Microsoft!
>
> According to a report Wednesday in USA Today, the United States
government
> and 19 U.S. states will seek to break up Microsoft Corporation into two
> smaller companies should it win its antitrust case against the software
> giant. And such a victory is virtually guaranteed unless Microsoft
reaches a
> settlement, given the harsh language of the findings of fact, which were
> issued last November. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who is overseeing
the
> case, will deliver his conclusions of law in February.
>
> The U.S. government and various states had been at odds regarding the
> eventual punishment of Microsoft ever since they combined forces to bring
> the monopolist to justice. However, according to the USA Today report, a
> consensus has finally been reached and the current plan is to split
> Microsoft into two companies, one that sells its Windows operating system
> and one that would sell applications software. Windows is installed on
well
> over 90% of all personal computers sold and in operation today.
>
> Though Microsoft says it is open to a settlement, the company isn't
> interested in being split up.
>
> "[A breakup] would do great harm to the industry," said Microsoft
> spokesperson Mike Murray.
>
> Late Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) publicly commented
on
> the USA Today story, which it described as "inaccurate in several
respects."
> USA Today then announced that it stands by the story, however. Microsoft
> shares fell almost 4 to 105 13/16 as rumors swirled about breakups and
> settlement talks; Microsoft lawyers also met today in Chicago with the
> mediator in its antitrust case.
>
> Oddly enough, AOL's purchase of Time Warner this week makes Microsoft's
> position in its antitrust trial more positive: Microsoft argued that its
> domination of the computer industry was under constant attack and that it
> could fall by the wayside at any time should its competitors come
together
> in a convincing way. With the AOL/Time Warner deal, that may have just
> happened.
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