It is they who instigated and cheered the government's lawsuit against Microsoft, and it is they who will benefit from the break up of the company. Despite its present dominance, Microsoft has faced enormous competition every day and every hour of the high-tech boom of the last decade. Its main enthusiast has been Eric Raymond, who hates Microsoft as much as anyone. But give Raymond credit. He is not for using the government to advance his pet interest.
Governments create monopolies.
The crux of the intellectual problem for the government is that it is relying on an anachronistic and long-refuted model of economics to bolster its case. Judged by this model, the software market fails. So does every other industry. According to this standard, any firm that appears to be a temporary winner in the competitive process can be deemed a monopoly. He further says that all anti-trust laws need to be abolished as incompatible with free enterprise and human liberty itself.