Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!valley From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Microsoft vs. the Feds Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 91 19:21:04 GMT References: <1991Mar12.185141.4559@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1991Mar12.223049.3796@qualcomm.com> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 19 rdippold@maui.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes: >In article <1991Mar12.185141.4559@en.ecn.purdue.edu> stevew@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Steven L Wootton) writes: >> >>CNN is reporting that Microsoft is being investigated for anti-trust >>violations. This has caused the value of their stock to fall 1/2 on NYSE >>today. They aren't reporting anything else yet. >> >>Anyone know what this is about? >I would say that they've got a pretty good case vis a vis Microsoft using >their position as the operating system supplier to leverage their way in the >applications markets. All from a "back seat lawyer" perspective here, of >course. Yup. And the stock dropped another 3 1/2 yesterday... Could drop quite a bit further, too. Not that I'm recommending any short selling. No, not at all...