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To: jmac who wrote (31924)	11/5/1999 8:29:00 PM
From: t2	Read Replies (2) of 74651

The judge decreed many months ago this method in order to entice the two parties to reach a settlement so he would not have to do a finding of law. My guess now is that the findings of fact are sooo lobsided and untenable, MSFT can't settle the case. So, the exercise is one of futility. MSFT will have to go with the appellate process We are forgetting one thing and that is the government officials are accountable to elected members including the president. They will probably want to go out with a victory rather than drag this thing out for years. The DOJ/States probably know they got a lot more than they had planned prior the start of the case. Why take chances with trying something radical and mess up America's dominance of the computer industry. As someone pointed out, the US markets would crash. I don't believe it unless people start feeling that Americian dominance in computer technology is about to go away along with MSFT's dominance of the PC industry. That is probably years away---it takes the Japanese, Europeans a little bit of time to develop alternatives. They have a solution for Intel but they still have not solved the Microsoft dominance.

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