Ron Seybold wrote:
>
>
> >  > On the other hand there are
> >>  lots of stock, 401K and Mutual Funds holders who have been hurt by these
> >>  actions in the last few months.  M$ was not the only company whose stock
> >>  went down.
> >
The downturn was just a blip, not a long term phenomenon.  The history
of such break ups is that the pieces are soon worth more than the whole
>
> Hoping this monopoly action has more lasting impact than the ones
> against IBM and Bell Telephone, and grateful for Microsoft's
> "innovation" of buying Internet Explorer,
>
Huh?  No telling what we would be paying for long local and long
distance service today of AT&T had not been broken up.  It has sure had
lasting impact in my book.

Nick D.