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To: Cosmo Daisey who wrote (16582)	4/27/2000 2:22:00 PM
From: techguerrilla	of 35685

About DOJ attorneys and Microsoft After my many years as an attorney in the Antitrust Division, I came to a number of conclusions: 1) The new attorneys (generally young) hired by the Division were rather intelligent, but not brilliant. "Connections" were not the way in the door. I saw no genuinely weak young hirings. Two of my young attorney friends, in fact, were brilliant. One later taught antitrust at Boston University. The other eventually helped start up Oracle's legal department. He now runs it. Man I wish I had his money. What a great guy. 2) The attorneys who stayed with the Division for a protracted period of time were dull and not particularly intelligent. Basically clock-punching bureaucrats. Generally, the dopes couldn't find other jobs and were protected by the Civil Service Commission. They were quite eccentric. At times I thought they were mentally ill. These were impressions I gleaned from my years with the Chicago Field Office of the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division. The Washington office had a somewhat similar overview with the major exception of the major case section. The true wizards seemed to find their way to that section. I saw colleagues with phenomenal minds gravitate to that section. They took on IBM and AT&T with the unlimited power of the federal government. They were true believers in antitrust enforcement. What happened in those cases in the end? Regarding Microsoft. Case closed. They have been backed into a corner by some of the finest antitrust experts in the nation, as well as by their incredible arrogance and illegal behavior. The government will not back down and has obtained factual rulings from the lower court. Microsoft will be estopped on most of those factual findings. Porching and enjoying QCOM's comeback from ashes, John

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