>>Hi All,
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>>I just saw this on TV then went to find the article. MS is trying to monopolize the popularity market ;-)
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>>http://cnnfn.com/2000/04/07/companies/wires/microsoft_wg/
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>I had seen an article in this morning's Business section of our Ft Worth paper about these ads. While I believe in a free and open market [free trade also], I also think government plays too big a role in private business. On the other hand, to have a freely competitive market place, government may have to intervene. I can think of very few occassions where gov't should intervene, one of which is this case [to a certain and reasonable degree] and in labor abuses.
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>As for the ads, Sic'em, Bill! Again my free market ideals are showing. The gov't lawyers and talking heads have had a heyday at MS expense with free air time to boot. MS has had to pay for theirs. Did anyone [government] help Bill and his partners when they had nothing? Nope. Was it their lives and capital at risk? Yep. I hate class envy. I also despise those who think wealthy people were just lucky. Those who work the hardest tend to make their own lucky breaks.
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>For whatever MS is found guilty of, the punishment should fit. Nothing more.

Hi Mark,
Here's some more info that might provide more backgound:

http://www.corpwatch.org/trac/feature/microsoft/chomsky.html