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    Re: Bill Gates' real crime... —Bruce Schlickbernd
   It seemed to me a pretty clear-cut case of monopolistic practices. Investors big and small should have seen this coming miles away. Microsoft even got a previous wake up call, dodged the bullet on penalties, and proceeded to behave as arrogantly as (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Bill Gates' real crime... —Frank Filz
   (...) While MS may have had some anti-competitive practices, I haven't seen anything which justifies a breakup. Some thoughts of mine on some of the issues which have been raised: - MS billing vendors for a copy of Windows for every machine sold: Do (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Bill Gates' real crime... —Bruce Schlickbernd
   (...) Investors (...) behave (...) just (...) Two wrongs make a right? And I see lots of systems at my job that have unix, not windows. (...) I really don't want to sit and enumerate all of Microsoft's trangressions. It's a big, sprawling, complex (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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