This tells you how qualified is the DOJ to make the 
decisions about computer technology.

The Wolf

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Jordan Bill-G13271 [mailto:G13271@email.mot.com]
-> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 11:43 AM
-> To: 'PLUG Discuss'
-> Subject: They have got to be kidding!
-> 
-> 
-> Is the Justice Department really serious about this?
-> From CNN's website.
-> 
-> 
->                                      Robber barons?
-> 
-> 
->                   The government fired  back at Microsoft, 
-> with Attorney
-> General Janet Reno
->                   emphasizing the Justice Department's 
-> determination to
-> create a fair market and
->                   competition among U.S. businesses.
-> 
->                   "America was not made the industrial giant 
-> of the world by
-> the robber barons
->                   alone," Reno told her weekly press 
-> conference. "It was
-> made the industrial
->                   giant of the world by competition, by 
-> encouraging new
-> developments, by
->                   encouraging young entrepreneurs to break 
-> into the market.
-> It's the best system
->                   I've seen so far."
-> 
->                   In view of Microsoft's monopoly with the 
-> Windows operating
-> system, Reno was
->                   asked why the Justice Department has bought tens of
-> thousands of PCs
->                   running Windows, rather than buying 
-> alternative operating
-> systems.
-> 
->                   She replied that monopolies limit choice, 
-> "I don't think
-> you endorse something
->                   by purchasing it," Reno said, "if that's 
-> the only game in
-> town...in terms of an
->                   effective machine, the lowest price available."
-> 
-> 
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