> >Is the Justice Department really serious about this?
> >                  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."
> 
> The real reason Microsoft was sued was not that it's any sort 
> of a real
> monopoly - if it were, Linux and this discussion group would 
> not be allowed
> to exist - but as a ploy to get the computer/Internet industry to pay
> tribute to Washington. What Clinton and Reno are hoping is 
> that next time
> around, Microsoft will buy a Senatorial campaign to get a competitor
> destroyed, just as Novell did to Microsoft.
> 

I think maybe YOU've got to be kidding now...