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AN EDITORIAL APOLOGY
Recently we misapprehended and subsequently printed a letter that caused some embarrassment to a Phi Kappa Phi member and to one of our member institutions, New Mexico Highlands University. We apologize to that person and to NMHU and take full responsibility for our oversight.
-Editor
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
We student and faculty members of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi at New Mexico Highlands University make the following response to the statement in "Letters to the Editor," National Forum (Summer 1999) regarding our professor, colleague, and president of Phi Kappa Phi: Our president is the antithesis of a professor who exhibits "declining faculty competence and motivation due to tenured positions." Exceptional competence is demonstrated in this respected professor's teaching, scholarship, and service to the university community.
Robert Mishler, David Engstrom, Sara Hanna, Mary Shaw, Jose Villarreal, Gene Barrow, Margaret Vazquez-Geffroy, Ursel Albers, Merryl Kravitz, Michael Withnall
New Mexico Highlands University
STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR AND COMPETITION IN THE INFORMATION AGE: THE MICROSOFT CASE
I found the article on Microsoft and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to be about as short-sighted as the government has been on this issue. The breakup of Microsoft would be a huge blow to the entire computer industry and more importantly to consumers. Antitrust laws are designed to protect the consumer; they are not designed to make every company equal. To say that consumers do not have a choice is ridiculous. Not only do hardware vendors get to load whatever software they want on the machines they sell, consumers have proven that they know how to get the software they want. After all, Netscape is still the number one hit site on the Internet. If consumers want a new IMac,TM they can go to the store and buy one. As an employee in the software industry, I will say that competition is fierce and growing everyday. Every year, software companies make billions of dollars selling their products and trying to make them better. But evil Microsoft ... it goes and gives its Internet browser away for free. How terrible for the consumers! Maybe many have forgotten that Netscape used to give its browser away for free, too, until it...