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To: Bob Drzyzgula who wrote (33504)	11/9/1999 9:37:00 PM
From: Duane L. Olson	of 74651

Bob, Thanks so much for sharing your experiences, for recognizing the (generally) civil nature of discourse on this thread, and for attempting to apply a few rules of reason and logic to ameliorate the more emotional, subjective verbiage. I particularly would like to associate with your comment: "Pournelle keeps admitting that Microsoft probably has harmed competition but refuses to admit that they've harmed consumers. As has been oft repeated on this board and elsewhere among Microsoft apologists, the link between these things that is explicitly recognized in law is totally ignored. Although I would expect that anyone who refuses to accept that link to see it, Pournelle trips himself up on this repeatedly.." Generally, what I have seen is sort of a backhanded acknowledgement that Microsoft's actions were at least questionable, in some cases, but even when confronted with the fact that certain actions are flat illegal, they generally come with a justification for the actions something like "Well they saved the consumer from their own stupidity (!)' With defenders like that, Microsoft really doesn't need a lot of enemies. Hope you'll come back frequently, Bob. A voice of reason is generally welcome anywhere...and yours certainly was. tso

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