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To: Marc Fortier who wrote (38458)	2/24/2000 2:31:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Professor Skeptical About Microsoft Breakup - [Washington] Post Thursday February 24 1:01 AM ET dailynews.yahoo.com (excerpts) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, whose views carry weight with the federal judge hearing the Microsoft Corp (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) antitrust trial, is skeptical about proposals to break up the software giant, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Lessig, who has twice been asked by U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to help with technical and antitrust issues in Microsoft cases, told the paper that imposing restrictions on Microsoft's business practices should be a sufficient penalty if Jackson rules that the company violated antitrust law. ``I'm skeptical about breakup,' Lessig was quoted as saying. ``It doesn't seem logical to me, but it does to the government.'.. ----- There's more in the full story, but MSFT shares should be helped by this tomorrow.

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